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. He was 96.

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 ...

“I have this habit going to sleep, see?” Studs Terkel’s eyes peered earnestly through thick, slightly skewed glasses, his brows furrowed uncharacteristically as he lowered his voice. “I used to count ...

Louis Terkel arrived here as a child from New York and in Chicago found not only a new name but a place that perfectly matched — in its energy, its swagger, its charms, its heart — his own personality ...

In 1984, Terkel spoke to NPR's Susan Stamberg about how he decides what stories to tell. In 1989, Terkel told NPR's Susan Stamberg that he thinks of Steinbeck's Dust Bowl novel The Grapes of Wrath — ...

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The timing feels terribly apt. Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression turned 50 this year. A bestseller in 1970, the book was one of nearly two dozen written by the cheerfully empathetic ...

One day, their belittling drives Terkel to the brink, so he lashes out at “Fat” Doris (Vanessa Gomez). This causes her to ...