Studs Terkel, Pulitzer Prize Winner

The son of Studs Terkel – the Pulitzer award-winning American author- has announced that his father had passed away yesterday, in Chicago, at the age of 96.

He was born in 1912 in New York, and his family moved to Chicago eight years later.

Studs Terkel is famous for books such as “Working” and “Division Street: America”. He won the appreciation of a large audience through his personalized description of US history, and he won a Pulitzer prize in 1985 for his oral history called “The Good War”.

Most people have come to know him by listening to one of his radio shows that he hosted for more than forty years in Chicago.

He was a charming and charismatic presence, even tempestuous, but he knew how to live his life and that is how his loved ones like to remember him.