Obit: Studs Terkel - 31 Oct 2008 96 yrs old

Subject: RE: Obit: Studs Terkel - 31 Oct 2008 96 yrs old
From: bobad
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 07:06 PM

Loved the guy, salt of the earth.

Subject: RE: Obit: Studs Terkel - 31 Oct 2008 96 yrs old
From: Dave Swan
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 07:03 PM

Awww, damn. Another one of that generation (and one who told its stories) gone over the hill.

D

Subject: RE: Obit: Studs Terkel - 31 Oct 2008 96 yrs old
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 06:49 PM

Awww. He was such an interesting guy, and he kept going and going and going.

SRS

Subject: Obit: Studs Terkel - 31 Oct 2008 96 yrs old
From: katlaughing
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 06:30 PM

Sorry to say I just read this. I am especially thinking of you, Art, and how much he meant to you. My condolences to all.

CHICAGO (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning author and activist Studs Terkel has died at age 96.

Colleague and close friend Thom Clark said Terkel's son, Dan Terkell, confirmed his death today. He died at home at 2:40 p.m., Clark said.

Studs Terkel is best known for his street-wise portrayals of the working class. He contrasted rich and poor along the same Chicago street in the 1966 novel "Division Street: America," explored the Depression in 1970's "Hard Times" and chronicled how people felt about their jobs in 1974's "Working."

He won a Pulitzer in 1985 for his remembrances of World War II in his novel "The Good War."

Dan Terkell issued a statement through Clark.

"My dad led a long full eventful, sometimes tempestuous, but very satisfying life," Terkell said, describing his father's death as "peaceful, no agony. This is what he wanted."