Pulitzer Prize-winning author Terkel dies at 96

 

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“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.” (story; also see this story; photo taken and kindly provided by Alec Soth)