Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor is an acclaimed radio personality and best-selling humorist. His weekly current affairs and humor column "The Old Scout" is distributed worldwide by Tribune Media Services.
Keillor has been the host of "A Prairie Home Companion," heard weekly by more than 4 million listeners on public radio stations across the country since 1974, and of "The Writer's Almanac," his daily radio show about poetry and history, since 1996. A best-selling author, Keillor has written more than a dozen books, including "Lake Wobegon Days," "The Book of Guys," "Love Me" and "Homegrown Democrat." He is an essayist for Time magazine and contributes casuals and "Talk of the Town" pieces to The New Yorker. Keillor wrote and starred in the Robert Altman film, "A Prairie Home Companion," based on his radio show, in 2006.
Each week in his column, Keillor offers readers his take on current events, life in the Midwest and an abundance of other topics. A profile in Time magazine called Keillor, "the funniest American writer still open for business," and the Washington Post described him as a "storytelling genius." Said the Houston Chronicle: "He's Will Rogers with grammar lessons, Aesop without the ax to grind, the common man's Moliere." Keillor was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1994. He was honored with the National Humanities Medal in 1999 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Garrison Keillor Samples
A Parent's Prayer
A perfect shiny summer day and a crowd of jittery children in clusters on the corner, about to board a yellow bus, their backpacks in a pile, their mothers giving urgent last-minute reassurances, and I stop and stare at this Large Life Event.
Garrison Keillor Takes Hiatus from TMS Syndicated Column
Garrison Keillor is taking a break from his weekly column so that he can finish a screenplay and start writing a novel.
Not Smart? Not a Problem
My time is short and so is yours, so why not tell the truth: A person can get along very well in life without one bit of the mathematics and physics they rammed into our brains in high school.
The Miracle of Shared Pleasure
A drizzly Flag Day and wet flags hang on their little poles stuck in the grass along our street. One of the beauties of fatherhood is the small miracle of shared pleasure.
Hanging Out With the College Crowd
A fine rainy day in Minnesota, and of course we should be discussing regulation of banking and the credit-default-swap market, but something in me wants to walk under a big black umbrella to the cafe for a skinny latte and eavesdrop on the college...
A Great Nation Immobilized
I flew home from Washington Monday night, looking at live pictures on the BP website taken by an underwater robot of the greasy waters of the Gulf, and how's that for a Metaphor of Our Times?
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