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Garrison Keillor

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Quotations
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Garrison Keillor (born 7 August 1942 ) is an American novelist, humorist, comedian, and public radio personality. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 News from Lake Wobegon 1.2 The Writer's Almanac 2 Unsourced 3 External links // Sourced To know and to serve God,...


Biography

Name: Garrison Keillor
Variant Name: Gary Edward Keillor
Birth Date: August 7, 1942
Place of Birth: Anoka, Minnesota, United States of America
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: humorist, radio host, writer

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Biography of Garrison Keillor
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Born August 7, 1942 in Anoka, Minnesota, and christened Gary by his parents, John and Grace Denham Keillor. "I've lived all of my life in Minnesota. As a child, the Laura Ingalls Wilder books were special to me because they were set so close by. These...
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Biography of Garrison Keillor
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Garrison Keillor (born 1942), host of public radio's popular A Prairie Home Companion and author of the best-selling Lake Wobegon Days, has made a career of telling stories about the fictional Minnesota town of Lake Wobegon and the lives of its...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Keillor, Garrison (1942—) Summary
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The humorist Garrison Keillor is best known as the host of A Prairie Home Companion (1974-1987; 1993—) and the American Radio Company (1989-1993), both of which have been carried nationally on public radio to up to five million weekly listeners....
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Garrison Keillor (born Gary Edward Keillor on August 7, 1942 in Anoka, Minnesota) is an American author, storyteller, humorist, columnist, musician, satirist, and radio personality. He is best known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie...


News and Journals
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National Review
The Political Garrison Keillor.
04/19/1999: 3,204 words, approx. 11 pages
Garrison Keillor is a writer and host on the popular National Public Radio program 'A Prairie Home Companion.' He is also a liberal and at the 1999 Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner he complemented the Clintons and berated Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura. Keillor grew...
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The Boston Globe
Penguin Offers A Garrison Keillor Quartet
04/08/1990: 735 words, approx. 3 pages
In issuing a uniform edition of Garrison Keillor's four books, Penguin offers what amounts to a "Prairie Home Quartet." Keillor's first book, "Happy to Be Here" (1983), comprises humor pieces. "Lake Wobegon Days" (1985), with its celebration of a mythical Minnesota community, was a...
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AP News
Humorist Garrison Keillor sues neighbor
1/15/2008: 258 words, approx. 1 pages
Humorist Garrison Keillor and his wife have filed a lawsuit intended to stop their next-door neighbor from building a two-story addition they say would block their access to light and air.The lawsuit was filed Monday in Ramsey County District Court by Keillor, the host of...
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AP News
Garrison Keillor sues St. Paul neighbor
1/15/2008: 258 words, approx. 1 pages
Humorist Garrison Keillor and his wife have filed a lawsuit intended to stop their next-door neighbor from building a two-story addition they say would block their access to light and air.The lawsuit was filed Monday in Ramsey County District Court by Keillor, the host of...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Sonja K. and Karen A. Foss
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In the following essay, Sonja and Karen Foss delineate the ways in which Keillor's radio monologues uphold a feminist epistomology.
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Critical Essay by Judith Yaross Lee
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In the following essay, Yaross Lee uses Keillor's story "Aprille" to analyze the effect of medium on a story.
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Critical Essay by John E. Miller
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In the following essay, Miller compares and contrasts Keillor's and Sinclair Lewis's portrayal of small-town life.
 


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