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Garrison Keillor Biography

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

Encyclopedia of World Biography on Garrison Keillor

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. Keillor has become an American icon, and his show is heard by nearly three million U.S. listeners each week on over 500 public radio stations. It is also heard overseas on America One and the Armed Forces Networks in Europe and the Far East.

Author and radio personality Garrison Keillor writes about God's Frozen People, the Scandinavian settlers of the American Midwest, a quirky cast of characters united only by their religious faith and distrust of worldliness. After decades on the air, Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion became a cultural guidepost; a cottage industry has grown around him, including a store in Minnesota's Mall of America devoted to his fictional hometown.

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