BookRags.com Literature Guides Literature
Guides
Criticism & Essays Criticism &
Essays
Questions & Answers Questions &
Answers
Lesson Plans Lesson
Plans
My Bibliography Periodic Table U.S. Presidents Shakespeare Sonnet Shake-Up
Research Anything:        
History | Encyclopedias | Films | News | Create a Bibliography | More... Login | Register | Help

Search "Lake Wobegon Days"

 

Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor

Print-Friendly
About 68 pages (20,278 words) in 6 products

"Lake Wobegon Days" Search Results
Contents:
Summaries and Analysis


Ask any question on Lake Wobegon Days and get it answered FAST!
Answer questions in BookRags Q&A and earn points toward
discounted or even FREE Study Guides and other BookRags products!
Learn more about BookRags Q&A
Author 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

summary from source:
Biography of Garrison Keillor
6377 words, approx. 21.3 pages
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 st...
summary from source:
Biography of Garrison Keillor
1745 words, approx. 5.8 pages
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 residents...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
summary from source:
Lake Wobegon Days Information
238 words, approx. 1 pages
Lake Wobegon Days, is a novel written by Garrison Keillor, first published in hardcover by Viking in 1985. Based on material first used in his radio show A Prairie Home Companion, it brought his work to a much wider audience, and achieved international...


News and Journals
summary from source:

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
In Lake Wobegon
06/13/2001: 305 words, approx. 1 pages
TAKES FIVE GARRISON KEILLOR In Lake Wobegon, you gotta wear red Wednesday, June 13, 2001 Garrison Keillor, author and star of Minnesota Public Radio's "Prairie Home Companion," does an annual solo performance in Dodgeville for employees of Lands' End Inc.,...
summary from source:

Forward
Lake Wobegon
03/18/1994: 537 words, approx. 2 pages
Hillel Halkin Forward 03-18-1994 Lake Wobegon. The floundering at the United Nations this week over a resolution on the Hebron massacre puts us in a reverie for Lake Success. The great struggle over partition, which took place in those early months when...
summary from source:

AP News
Keillor pens new Lake Wobegon novel
9/9/2007: 296 words, approx. 1 pages
Maybe it's that he's hit retirement age, but Garrison Keillor wasn't afraid to admit that his latest novel was easy to write."For me, that was manageable," Keiller said of "Pontoon," his 248-page return to Lake Wobegon. "I'm telling my publisher I want to write a...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
summary from source:
Critical Essay by Michael Kline
5,421 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following essay, Kline analyzes the different narrative approaches Keillor uses in his monologues about Lake Wobegon.
summary from source:
Stephen Wilbers (essay dale Spring 1989)
4,953 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following excerpt, Wilbers traces the common features of a mythical place exhibited by Keillor's Lake Wobegon.


Lake Wobegon Days Study Pack

Get the complete Lake Wobegon Days Study Pack, which includes everything on this page. Approximately 68 pages (at 300 words per page) in 6 products.

 Please Note: Study Pack does not include any HighBeam content.

This Study Pack Contains:
Complete Short Guide
2 Biographies
1 Encyclopedia Article
2 Literature Criticism Essays
Multiple Formats Available:

· online web format
· "print-friendly" format
· downloadable PDF format
· downloadable Word/RTF format
Available Immediately Online
 

Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor

Print-Friendly
About 68 pages (20,278 words) in 6 products




Join BookRagslearn moreJoin BookRags


About BookRags | Customer Service | Report an Error | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy |