In 1968, Gross graduated from Sheepshead Bay High School. Gross, who works as a psychometric consultant. When she was young, people would often ask where Gross came from, assuming that her lack of a heavy Brooklyn accent meant she grew up elsewhere. She said that her family lived in an apartment near Senior's Restaurant, a local landmark. She grew up in a Jewish family, and all her grandparents were immigrants, her father's parents from Tarnów, Poland and her mother's from the Russian Empire.
Terry Gross was born in Brooklyn, New York City, and grew up in its Sheepshead Bay neighborhood, the second child of Anne (Abrams), a stenographer, and Irving Gross, who worked in a family millinery business, where he sold fabric to milliners. She has a reputation for researching her guests' work largely the night before an interview, often asking them unexpected questions about their early careers. 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.
Since joining NPR in 1975, Gross has interviewed thousands of guests. Terry Gross (born February 14, 1951) is an American journalist who is the host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, an interview-based radio show produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed nationally by NPR.
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