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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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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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A bird trapped in a rectangle

A sunny day in New York and we left the doors open to our balcony and suddenly I heard flapping, a sort of panic of wings, and a teenage robin was in the living room bumping off the ceiling. I guess he’d never experienced a ceiling before. We have mourning doves nesting on the balcony, the mama roosting on the nestlings, the papa out shopping for seeds, and a pair of mockingbirds has raised their

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Average rating: 3.83 · 60,091 ratings · 6,494 reviews · 259 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lake Wobegon Days 3.64 avg rating — 8,607 ratings — published 1985 — 77 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 — 7,038 ratings — published 2002 — 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
	Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon 3.56 avg rating — 3,904 ratings — published 2007 — 28 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 — 3,331 ratings — published 2005 — 7 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 — 1,969 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 — 2,053 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 — 1,747 ratings — published 1997 — 36 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 — 2,125 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 — 1,409 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 — 1,468 ratings — 6 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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News from Lake Wobegon (5 books)
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4.36 avg rating — 764 ratings

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

16 votes 16.7%

Aniara: An Epic Science Fiction Poem

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Good Poems edited by Garrison Keillor

11 votes 11.5%

Selected Poems by Rita Dove

7 votes 7.3%

Mouthful of Forevers

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One

5 votes 5.2%

Under the Mesquite

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Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems

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Triangles

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