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Studs Terkel

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Studs Terkel has died. He was 96. His connection to music was far and wide. In the 1950's he wrote an interesting book called Giants of Jazz. He went on to become well known for his oral histories such as Working, The Great Divide, and The Good War as well as a host of others. He was a Chicago original who was born in New York but called Chicago home for most of his life.

He's one of the few authors that I ever bothered going to a book signing - not just to get him to sign the first editions I hunted down but to hear the stories. Studs Terkel was one of a kind. Please take a moment and look for some of his books or his classic interviews. They'll be enriching and maybe even inspirational.
 
Studs Terkel captured the essence of Chicago in the pages of his best-selling oral histories, chronicling common people and celebrities alike.

Along the way he became an ageless master of listening and speaking, a broadcaster, activist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Terkel died Friday at age 96.

"He found his home in Chicago and he found it in the gritty aspect of Chicago life," said Russell Lewis, chief historian at the Chicago History Museum. "The ne'er-do-wells, the outcasts, the bums, all these people were people he was curious about. They intrigued him."

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There was an extended musical tribute to him on Public Radio's "A Prairie Home Companion". Considering the show is rebroadcast in some markets on Sunday, you might be able to catch it live (it was in the first hour) or catch it on their website at http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/
 
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