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, recou...
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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 see...
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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 r...
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Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor
Critical Essay by Michael Kline
Keillor pens new Lake Wobegon novel
