Louis Terkel arrived here as a child from New York City 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 ...

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 ...

The WFMT Radio Network is preparing to release the complete digitized radio archives of Pulitzer Prize–winning oral historian Studs Terkel online by early 2015, with the help of the Chicago History ...

I knew Studs Terkel since, actually, the day I was born. He took my father, his friend, out for a celebratory drink, or three, that long-ago day, and over the next decades, I wrote many thousands of ...

Four years ago, after the death of his wife, Ida, Studs Terkel published "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," a collection of interviews about death and dying. Given that Terkel was on the eve of his 90th ...

In the early 1970’s, author Studs Terkel went around the country with a reel-to-reel tape recorder interviewing people about their jobs. The result was a book called "Working: People Talk About What ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — ...

Studs Terkel — master chronicler of American life in the 20th century, veteran radical and vibrant soul of the midwestern capital of Chicago — has died, aged 96. To register him as "writer and ...