Studs Terkel is a prize-winning author and broadcast personality. He began his career in Chicago where he worked with the WPA Writers Project in the radio division. In his early years on the radio, he featured music ranging from folk to opera to jazz. Over the years, his programs evolved into an interview format, including his award-winning show, The Studs Terkel Program. His first book, Giants of Jazz, was published in 1956, and ten years later, his first book of oral-history interviews, Division Street: America, was released, followed by a succession of oral-history books on the Depression, World War II, race relations, working, and the American dream.
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