Saturday, November 1, 2008

STUDS TERKEL, LISTENER TO AMERICANS, DIES AT 96

by: William Grimes, The New York Times

Studs Terkel Dies.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel dies at the age of 96.(Photo: Charles Rex Arbogast / AP)

Studs Terkel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose searching interviews with ordinary Americans helped establish oral history as a serious genre, and who for decades was the voluble host of a popular radio show in Chicago, died Friday at his home there. He was 96. His death was confirmed by Lois Baum, a friend and longtime colleague at the radio station WFMT. read post here»

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