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Garrison Keillor

Born

in Anoka, Minnesota, The United States

August 07, 1942

Website

http://www.garrisonkeillor.com/

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Genre

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Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor is an American author, singer, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. He created the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prairie Home Companion (called Garrison Keillor's Radio Show in some international syndication), which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. Keillor created the fictional Minnesota town Lake Wobegon, the setting of many of his books, including Lake Wobegon Days and Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories. Other creations include Guy Noir, a detective voiced by Keillor who appeared in A Prairie Home Companion comic skits. Keillor is also the creator of the five-minute daily radio/podcast program The Writer's Almanac, which pairs poems of his choice with a script about important liter ...more

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It’s almost March, time to head north

I sort of miss having Greenland in the news every day, a land I’ve sometimes wanted to visit when I get sick of summer. Face it, nature can get tedious at a certain point and Greenland has less greenery than any other land I can think of. I’m from Minnesota, which has a long winter so when spring rolls around people expect you to be all giddy and excited and do things, have picnics, play softball,

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Average rating: 3.83 · 59,499 ratings · 6,407 reviews · 283 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lake Wobegon Days 3.64 avg rating — 8,518 ratings — published 1985 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Poems 4.18 avg rating — 6,984 ratings — published 2002 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon 3.56 avg rating — 3,875 ratings — published 2007 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Poems for Hard Times by Garrison Keillor (Editor), Charles Bukowski, Robert Burns 4.13 avg rating — 3,292 ratings — published 2005 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leaving Home 3.83 avg rating — 1,951 ratings — published 1987 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lake Wobegon Summer, 1956 3.51 avg rating — 2,027 ratings — published 2001 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wobegon Boy 3.52 avg rating — 1,730 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Christmas Blizzard 2.88 avg rating — 2,111 ratings — published 2009 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America 3.95 avg rating — 1,407 ratings — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Garrison Keillor (Adapter/Narrator), Mark Twain 3.67 avg rating — 1,470 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Lake Wobegon (12 books)
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Good Poems (3 books)
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News from Lake Wobegon (5 books)
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Lake Wobegon, USA (5 books)
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The Aeneid

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Wildly Into the Dark: Typewriter Poems and the Rattlings of a Curious Mind

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Aniara: An Epic Science Fiction Poem

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Good Poems edited by Garrison Keillor

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Selected Poems by Rita Dove

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Mouthful of Forevers

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One

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Under the Mesquite

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Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems

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Triangles

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