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Arts & Literature

Studs Terkel

Who

Studs Terkel · Arts & Literature

What

Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction

When

1912, The Bronx, New York, United States — 2008, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Studs Terkel is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction

How & why

Terkel was an American oral historian and broadcaster who won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for The Good War, his collection of first-person accounts of World War II, part of a lifetime spent recording the voices of ordinary Americans in books like Working and Hard Times. Born Louis Terkel in New York, he was raised in a Jewish family before the family moved to Chicago.

Sources & external links

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction

Contributions & Sources

Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction