Studs Terkel died on Friday. He was 96 years old. A Pulitzer prize winning author, long-running radio host, and political activist, Terkel’s work touched on everything from the Great Depression to World War II, American race relations to the lives of working people, jazz music to his own life, which he wrote about in a memoir, Touch and Go, released a year ago when he was 95.

Terkel’s far-ranging interests and areas of inquiry might explain why so many writers approached his death from their own beats.

Here are some samples:

— Studs Terkel & The Copy Boy With Homicidal Fantasies, by Mark Fitzgerald, Editor & Publisher.

— Studs Terkel, the Baseball Fan, Will Be Missed, by Maggie Hendricks, NBC Chicago.com.

— Studs Terkel: Missed, by Peter Rothberg, The Nation.

— Studs, friend of the Chicago theater, is gone, by Chris Jones, The Theater Loop, The Chicago Tribune.

— Hail Studs Terkel, Jazz Age Chicagoan, by Howard Mandel, Jazz Beyond Jazz, Artsjournal.com

— Parting Words: Studs Terkel On Hope, All Things Considered, NPR.

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