# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/studs-terkel
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:27:32.492Z

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name: "Studs Terkel"
slug: "studs-terkel"
description: "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."
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birthDate: "1912-05-16"
deathDate: "2008-10-31"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump