Louis "Studs" Terkel, American Historian(1912-2008)

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Just the Facts:

• Name: Louis Terkel
• Known as: Studs Terkel
• Birth: May 16, 1912, New York City, New York, USA
• Death: October 31, 2008, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Language: English
• Who he was: American author and historian best known for oral histories of "everyday Americans"; Hard Times; Working; The Good War; Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction (1985)

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