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.
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