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GARRISON KEILLOR Garrison Keillor was born in 1942 in Anoka, Minnesota, and began his radio career as a freshman at the University of Minnesota, from which he graduated in 1966. He went to work for Minnesota Public Radio in 1969, and on July 6, 1974, he hosted the first broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion in St. Paul. The show ended in 1987, resumed in 1989 in New York as The American Radio Company, returned to Minnesota, and in 1993 resumed the name A Prairie Home Companion. Each week 2.6 million listeners on more than 450 public radio stations now hear the show. Keillor hosts a daily five-minute radio program, The Writer's Almanac, is a frequent contributor to Time Magazine and writes a biweekly column of advice to the lovelorn for Salon, the online magazine. He is the author of eleven books, including Lake Wobegon Days (1985), The Book of Guys (1993), The Old Man Who Loved Cheese (1996), and Wobegon Boy (1997). His most recent book, Me: By Jimmy "Big Boy" Valente As Told to Garrison Keillor, was published in March of 1999. Keillor has received numerous awards including, a Grammy Award for his recording of Lake Wobegon Days. He has also received two ACE Awards for cable television, and a George Foster Peabody Award. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and recently was presented with a National Humanities Medal by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1994, he was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame at Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications. With Philip Brunelle, he has performed with many orchestras, including the Chicago, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Dallas, and National symphonies. He has appeared at Wolf Trap, Carnegie Hall, and other major concert halls as a member of The Hopeful Gospel Quartet, and he has performed on his own in one-man shows across the country and on tour broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion. Scott Poole | Kurt Vonnegut | Jennifer Davis | Garrison Keillor | Sarah Vowell | Dave Barry | Lynda Barry | Christopher Howell | Chris Crutcher | Jonathan Johnson | Joseph Millar | Dorianne Laux | Paul Zimmer | Nance Van Winckel | Natalie Kusz | Terry Davis | Gregory Spatz | Joelean Copeland | John Keeble | William Kittrdge | Annick Smith | John Whalen | Tom I. Davis | Libby Wagner | Harvey Pekar | Phil Condon | Claire Davis | Pete Fromm | Linda Lawrence Hunt | Amanda Lumry | Teri Hein | Greg Delzer | Dan Morris | Fionn Meade | John Reischmann and the Jaybirds | Terry Bain | Jennifer Reid | Kit Seatons |
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