Friday, October 31, 2008

R.I.P.: Studs Terkel



Pulitzer Prize-winning author Terkel dies at 96



By CARYN ROUSSEAU, Associated Press Writer

CHICAGO – Studs Terkel, the ageless master of listening and speaking, a broadcaster, activist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose best-selling oral histories celebrated the common people he liked to call the "non-celebrated," died Friday. He was 96.

Dan Terkell said his father died at home, and described his death as "peaceful, no agony. This is what he wanted."

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His oral history books are significant contributions. I especially like Division Street about the 60s.

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