Louis "Studs" Terkel was an American writer, historian, actor and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1985 for The Good War and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.
- Occupation
- journalist, historian, radio personality, writer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- May 16, 1912
- Died
- October 31, 2008
- Website
- http://www.studsterkel.org
