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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chicago is a city of bookish abundance, home to countless literary giants past and present. The author Rebecca Makkai recommends works that capture its spirit. By Rebecca Makkai Barack Obama’s Netflix ...

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 ...

Studs Terkel’s misspelled name at a Willis Tower exhibit has gone relatively unnoticed for about 14 years. That is, until this week, when Jim Romenesko posted on his journalism blog a photo of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Studs Terkel had a gift for connecting with people and collecting their stories. Some of those oral histories of everyday workers talking about their jobs became a bestselling book published in 1974 ...