Studs Terkel

Studs Terkel, a Chicago radio broadcaster, carried a tape recorder to interview ordinary Americans for books including Division Street: America in 1967, Hard Times on the Depression, Working in 1974 and The Good War, which won the 1985 Pulitzer prize. He edited hours of talk into monologues, cutting and rearranging freely, and said so. His recordings, around 5,000 hours, are now digitised by the Library of Congress and the Chicago History Museum.