Authors such as Studs Terkel, Alex Haley, and Oscar Lewis have employed oral history in their books, many of which are largely based on interviews.

* May 16 – Studs Terkel, American writer and broadcaster ( d. 2008 )

Slim's poem, " The Lumberjack's Prayer " was recorded by Studs Terkel on labor singer Bucky Halker's CD, " Don't Want Your Millions " ( Revolting Records, 2000 ).

The barber Sam Mature, whose interview with Studs Terkel was published in Terkel's 1974 book Working, says " A man used to get a haircut every couple weeks.

And we stopped off in Chicago and stayed with Studs Terkel who was a hospitable man and his wonderful hospitable wife.

* 1985: The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel

*( Louis ) Studs Terkel ( May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008 ) — Chicago writer, journalist, DJ, and oral historian

Louis " Studs " Terkel ( May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008 ) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster.

His well-known radio program, titled The Studs Terkel Program, aired on 98. 7 WFMT Chicago between 1952 and 1997.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Terkel was also the central character of Studs ' Place, an unscripted television drama about the owner of a greasy-spoon diner in Chicago through which many famous people and interesting characters passed.

To keep the two straight, the director of the production gave Terkel the nickname Studs after the fictional character about whom Terkel was reading at the time — Studs Lonigan, of James T. Farrell's trilogy.

* Studs Terkel official website

* Audio & Video Archive of Studs Terkel Interviews on Democracy Now!

* 2005 video of WFMT Critic-at-Large Andrew Patner's interview with Studs Terkel at the University of Chicago

* Link to interview of Studs Terkel on his book, Coming of Age

* Studs Terkel-The Last Touch-interviews with Terkel by Alan Hall in 2004 and 2005-streaming and podcast audio on ABC Radio National

* 2007 video interview with Studs Terkel by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!

* news. bbc. co. uk, BBC, Obituary: Studs Terkel

* On The Media-The Recording of America, Tribute to Studs Terkel

* Studs Terkel Archive of American Television Interview

* Studs Terkel Video Collection at Media Burn Archive

cy: Studs Terkel

The film includes interviews with notable American authors Studs Terkel, Stetson Kennedy, and popular American historian Douglas Brinkley.

In the same issue of the magazine a letter of protest from famed oral historian Studs Terkel affirms that " With half a dozen Stetson Kennedys, we can transform our society into one of truth, grace and beauty ....

* David Chapman: Retro Studs: Muscle Movie Posters from Around the World: Portland: Collectors Press: 2002: ISBN 1-888054-69-7

Said Howard Reich, jazz critic of the Chicago Tribune, “ It would be difficult to overestimate Henry Threagill ’ s role in perpetually altering the meaning of jazz ..… He has changed our underlying assumptions of what jazz can and should be .” – An excerpt from a chapter on Henry Threadgill from And They All Sang ( published 2005 ) by late Pulitzer winning author and disc jockey Studs Terkel – a book about “ forty of the greatest and most deeply human musical figures of our time ”.

In 2002, he won the Studs Terkel Award for journalistic excellence for writing from a grassroots perspective, and has received several Peter Lisagor Awards for commentary.

* Studs ( game show ), a dating show from the early 1990s

I recall a fine description of men carrying a dying man down a mountain ; but every time I got going in the narrative I would find myself stopped cold by a set of made-up, predictable characters taken, not from life, but from the same novels all of us had read, and informed by a naivete which was at its worst when Mailer went into his Time-Machine and wrote those passages which resemble nothing so much as the prose poems of Weary Reilley in Studs Lonigan.

As Studs slowly deteriorates, changing from a tough but fundamentally good-hearted, adventurous teenage boy to an embittered, physically shattered alcoholic, Farrell portrays sympathetically and graphically both the man and his society coming undone.

Even Lucy Scanlan, the dream girl Studs worships from afar, proves to be surprisingly warm and engaging in the film version.

WMAQ-TV originated several programs for the NBC television network from its studios in the Merchandise Mart during the 1950s, including Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, featuring Burr Tillstrom and Fran Allison ; Garroway at Large, starring Dave Garroway ; and " Studs ' Place ," hosted by Studs Terkel.

Awards include from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, the Peter Lisagor Awards, and the Studs Terkel Award for Baim.

During the 1990s and early 2000s ( decade ), the dating game show also filled late night slots in syndication, Love Connection and Studs were some of the earliest successes in the 1990s ; though the dating game shows that debuted after 1998, such as Blind Date, The 5th Wheel and Elimidate, were often known for pushing the boundaries of sexually-suggestive content on broadcast television ; the genre largely died off from syndication by 2006.

His own published work since then has included essays, interviews, poetry and translations that have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, The Harvard Review, Poetry, Rolling Stone, Jacket ( Australia ), Verse and on the BBC Radio literary program The Verb He also edited One More River to Cross: The Selected Poems of John Beecher ( introduction by Studs Terkel ), and co-edited Invited Guest: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Southern Poetry with David Rigsbee, which was selected as one of the " Best of the Best from the University Presses " and featured on C-SPAN's " Book TV ".

* James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan

* Judgment Day ( novel ), a novel by James T. Farrell, and the conclusion to Farrell's Studs Lonigan trilogy

He spent the summer reading and rereading James T. Farrell's “ Studs Lonigan ,” John Steinbeck ’ s “ Grapes of Wrath ” and John Dos Passos ’ s “ U. S. A .,” and he began, or so he claimed, to set himself a daily quota of 3, 000 words of his own, on the theory that this was the way to get bad writing out of his system.

One of his most famous works was the Studs Lonigan trilogy, which was made into a film in 1960 and into a television miniseries in 1979.

* Studs McGirdle, a character in Cars ( film )

The character Lonigan was also featured in a minor 1960 film and a 1979 television miniseries sharing the title Studs Lonigan.

According to series creator Joss Whedon, the character Quinn in the TV series Angel was " totally based on Studs Lonigan.

Unlocked characters can be imported into the game's sequel, Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, as an extra called " use old save ", which costs 250, 000 Lego Studs, and be used in its character creator function.

A novelist, journalist, and short story writer known for his realistic portraits of the working class South Side Irish, especially in the novels about the character Studs Lonigan.