Silhouette: ADIEU OLD REBEL.

Studs Terkel never mellowed, never retired, never forgot, and 'never met a picket line or petition' he didn't like. Caryn Rousseau pays tribute to the ageless master of listening and speaking 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', has died. He was 96. Dan Terkell said his father died at home, and described his death as 'peaceful, no agony. This is what he wanted.' 'My dad led a long, full, eventful, sometimes tempestuous, but very satisfying life,' Terkell, who spells his name with an extra letter, said in a statement issued through his father's colleague and close friend …