The first installment of WFMT’s Studs Terkel Radio Archive-some 1,200 programs-has just been made available to the public. Studs Terkel conducted 5,600 hours of interviews during the forty-five years (1952 to 1997) he worked at Chicago’s WFMT-FM. He was a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and a recipient of a Presidential National Humanities Medal, the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, a George Polk Career Award, a Peabody Award, the National Book Critics Circle 2003 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, and the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
Studs Terkel (1912–2008) was an award-winning author and radio broadcaster, and the author of Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession Division Street: America, Coming of Age: Growing Up in the Twentieth Century Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times “The Good War”: An Oral History of World War II Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century American Dreams: Lost and Found The Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and Theater Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith Giants of Jazz Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey Touch and Go: A Memoir P.S.: Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening and Studs Terkel’s Chicago, all published by The New Press.
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