Studs Terkel (1912-2008) was an award-winning author and radio broadcaster. He is the author of Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession; 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. He was a member of the American 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, and the National Book Critics Circle 2003 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award.

Praise for Division Street:
"Remarkable. . . . Division Street astonishes, dismays, exhilarates."
-The New York Times

"Totally absorbing."
--The New Yorker

"Reports not only multitudes divided, but the division in ourselves . . . as exciting as a good novel."
--Nelson Algren

"A cross-section of all that is contained in humanity."
--Chicago Tribune

Praise for Division Street:
"Remarkable. . . . Division Street astonishes, dismays, exhilarates."
--The New York Times

"Totally absorbing."
--The New Yorker

"Reports not only multitudes divided, but the division in ourselves . . . as exciting as a good novel."
--Nelson Algren

"A cross-section of all that is contained in humanity."
--Chicago Tribune

Publisher: New Press

Pub date: 2024-11-05

Length: 416 pages