22 Facts About Terry Gross

Terry Gross has won praise over the years for her low-key and friendly yet often probing interview style and for the diversity of her guests.

Terry Gross's has a reputation for researching her guests' work largely the night before an interview, often asking them unexpected questions about their early careers.

Terry Gross was born in Brooklyn, and grew up in its Sheepshead Bay neighborhood, the second child of Anne, a stenographer, and Irving Gross, who worked in a family millinery business, where he sold fabric to milliners.

Terry Gross's grew up in a Jewish family, and all her grandparents were immigrants, her father's parents from Tarnow, Poland and her mother's from the Russian Empire.

Terry Gross's said that her family lived in an apartment near Senior's Restaurant, a local landmark.

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When she was young, people would often ask where Terry Gross came from, assuming that her lack of a heavy Brooklyn accent meant she grew up elsewhere.

Terry Gross's has an older brother, Leon J Gross, who works as a psychometric consultant.

Terry Gross's earned a bachelor's degree in English and a Master of Education degree in communications from the University at Buffalo.

Terry Gross's took a year off from school to hitchhike across the country.

In 1972, Terry Gross started teaching 8th grade at an inner-city public junior high school in Buffalo.

Terry Gross's said she was ill-equipped for the job, especially at establishing discipline, and was fired after only six weeks.

Terry Gross began her radio career in 1973 at WBFO, an NPR CPB-funded college station, then broadcasting from the Main Street Campus of the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York, where she started out as a volunteer on a show called Woman Power, then co-hosted This is Radio.

Terry Gross typically conducts the interviews from the WHYY-FM studios in Philadelphia, with her subject at the studio of a local NPR affiliate convenient to them connected via telephone or satellite feed.

Terry Gross creates a daily show that is an hour long, usually includes two interviews, and is distributed to over 190 NPR stations.

Many of the producers and staff on Terry Gross's show have been with her since the late 1970s to 1980s.

Terry Gross said that when she first started working in radio, her voice was much higher with anxiety.

Terry Gross appeared as a guest-voice on The Simpsons as herself, in the episode "The Debarted".

In January 2020, Terry Gross appeared on the PBS program Finding Your Roots, in which she explored her Jewish heritage.

In 2020, Terry Gross appeared as a fictionalized version of herself in the audiobook version of the Max Brooks novel Devolution.

Terry Gross said she dropped out of college in her sophomore year to hitchhike with him across the country before they were married.

Terry Gross's obtained a divorce by the time she started her radio career in 1973.

Terry Gross has been married to Francis Davis, a former jazz critic for The Village Voice, since 1994.