biography
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Keillor, Garrison
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pseudonym of Gary Edward Keillor
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pronunciation:
[keeler]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1942– )
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| biography:
| Humorous writer and radio performer, born in Anoka, Minnessota, USA. He studied at Minnesota University, became a radio announcer, then began writing for The New Yorker. In 1974 he first hosted the live radio show, ‘A Prairie Home Companion’, delivering a weekly monologue set in the quiet, fictional mid-western town of Lake Wobegon, ‘where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average’. When the show closed in 1987 he was celebrated for his wry, deliberate, hypnotic storytelling. His books include Happy To Be Here (1981), the best-selling Lake Wobegon Days (1985), Leaving Home (1987), We Are Still Married (1989), and WLT: A Radio Romance (1992). In 1999 appeared Me: by Jimmy (Big Boy) Valente. |
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