Pulitzer Prize-winning author Terkel dies at 96

Posted on October 31, 2008 by

CHICAGO (AP) — 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….

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