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 ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- Chicago is remembering Studs Terkel Wednesday, on what would have been his 100th birthday. Terkel died at the age of 96 on Oct. 31, 2008. While he was actually a native of New York ...

NEW YORK — For a fleeting moment after Sept. 11, working-class heroes were elevated to the status they’ve long occupied in the oral histories of Louis “Studs” Terkel. That is, center stage. So it’s ...

Legendary oral historian, author and radio personality Studs Terkel has died at his home in Chicago. He was 96. Terkel's health had been declining for some time and he was very frail; his son, Dan ...

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author and activist Studs Terkel has died at 96. By The Associated Press CHICAGO — Studs Terkel, the ageless master of listening and speaking, a broadcaster, activist and ...

More than just a compelling adventure, Rachel Chance provides a bittersweet glimpse of rural Washington state in the 1940s. Rachel Chance's illegitimate brother Rider is a beautiful child, and a lot ...

The most memorable letter that recently former editor Richard Babcock received during his tenure as editor of Chicago came after a December 1993 issue featuring a naked woman on the cover. According ...

He wrote about it poetically in his first book, “Giants of Jazz” (1957), and in one of his last, “And They All Sang” (2005). In the decades between, Terkel’s celebrated radio show illuminated our ...

After 16 books and at the age of 95, Studs Terkel finally has written a memoir. At least his publisher calls Touch and Go a memoir. I think of it as "Stories From Studs," which is fine with me, given ...