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Lake Wobegon Days by 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 Minneso...
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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 spe...
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In the following essay, Kline analyzes the different narrative approaches Keillor uses in his monologues about Lake Wobegon.
Garrison Keillor's immensely popular Lake Wobegon episodes, recounte...
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In the following excerpt, Wilbers traces the common features of a mythical place exhibited by Keillor's Lake Wobegon.
… At a time when live radio programs are an anomaly and there seems ...
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Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor
Critical Essay by Michael Kline
