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Studs Terkel, who made his name listening to ordinary folks talk about their ordinary lives -- and who turned that knack for conversation into a much-honored literary career -- died Friday.
Nov. 1, 2008
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The Chicago fixture used his knack for conversation to capture oral histories on World War II, the Great Depression and more.
The life and times of Studs Terkel
Sept. 16, 2014
Voices, and a few virtuosos (September 3, 2005)It’s tempting to mock this uneven collection of conversations as an attempt by Studs Terkel, now 93, to squeeze every penny out of every inch of recording tape he’s used in four decades of collecting oral histories.
An inveterate lover of words, Studs Terkel counts “irony” among his favorites, and no one is more cognizant than the octogenarian oral historian himself of his rather ironic situation.
Dec. 1, 1996
May 17, 2007
Harlan Ellison, Isaac Asimov, Studs Terkel together in 1982 video
May 6, 2013
The retiring Chicago author and radio personality donates his extraordinary collection of interviews to the city’s historical society.
July 3, 1997