Authors Compare And Contrast

Tracy Kidder

Born: November 12, 1945

Place of Birth:New York, New York

Married: unknown lives with wife and

family

• Louis “Studs” Terkel

•Born: May 16, 1912•Died: October 31, 2008

•Place of Birth: New York City, New York

• Married: 1939 •Wife: Ida Goldberg (1912-1999) They had one son “Paul”

Louis “Studs” Terkel

J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1934

2004, honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Colby College

Tracy Kidder

Harvard - Bachelor of Arts in 1967

From 1967 until 1969, he served as first lieutenant in Vietnam, and was awarded a Bronze Star.

Masters from the University of Iowa

Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Massachusetts, Springfield College, and Clarkson University.

Louis “Studs” Terkel Program Joined/ElectedWorks Progress

Administration’s Federal Writers Project

The American Academy o f Arts and Letters

Awards1997-Pulitzer Prize for

The Good War1999-George Polk Career

Award2004- Elijah Parish

Lovejoy

Tracy KidderProgram Joined/ElectedWriters Workshop Awards1981-Pulitzer Prize

for The Soul of a New Machine

1982-American Book Award

1990-Robert F. Kennedy Book Award

1990- the Ambassador Book Award

1998-the Sarah Josepha Hale Award

Giants of Jazz (1957). Division Street: America (1967) Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (1970) Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1974). Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times (1977) American Dreams: Lost and Found (1983) The Good War (1984) Chicago (1986) The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American Dream (1988) Race: What Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession (1992). Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who’ve Lived It (1995) My American Century (1997) The Spectator: Talk About Movies and Plays With Those Who Make Them (1999) Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Reflections on Death, Rebirth and Hunger for a Faith (2001) Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times (2003) And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey (2005) Touch and Go (2007) P.S. Further Thoughts From a Lifetime of Listening (2008)

The Road to Yuba City: A Journey into the Juan Corona Murders, Doubleday, 1974

The Soul of a New Machine, Back Bay Books, 1981 House, Hougton Mifflin Co., 1985 Among Schoolchildren, Avon Books, 1989 Old Friends, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1994 Home Town, Random House, 1999 Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr.

Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, Random House

My Detachment: a Memoir, Random House, 2005

(a Vietnam War memoir)

Author: Tracy Kidder

He likes to capture the reflections of the natural person in his stories.

Example: “Alex is their cutter nonpareil. He likes nothing better than to get from Richard an order for thirty two-by-tens, all fifteen feet, five q and three-eights inches long.”

Louis “Studs” Terkel

Enjoyed interviewing the subjects of his books. This would give him more voice and true description of the characters.

Example: “She’s twenty-three. She’s an engineer working

for a nonprofit group: Center for Neighborhood Technology.”

The differences between the two areStuds:

PersonalRealRationalize with

Kidder:ConstructionConsumersPhysical Labor

Both have a great deal alike in their bio’s.Except the main degrees and their main

interestBoth were in the military and VeteransBoth acquired many rewards

Differences'One has died and one is aliveStuds did more than write books

Chicago Historical Society , (2002). Studs terkel:conversation with america. Retrieved November 14, 2008, from Studs Terkel Web site:

http://www.studsterkel.org/index.html

Klempner, M (2008, March 16). A Conversation with trady kidder about mountains

beyond mountains. Retrieved November 15, 2008, from The Huffington Post Web site: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-klempner/a-conversation-with-tracy_b_91799.html