Garrison Keillor was born in Anoka, MN, in 1942 and is most well known as the creator of "A Prairie Home Companion". Keillor has been involved with the popular radio show for most of the last thirty years and has written a number of books for both adults and children.
A graduate the University of Minnesota, Keillor was working for Minnesota Public Radio’s “Prairie Home Companion” morning show in 1969 when he began writing an article about the Grand Ole Opry for the New Yorker magazine. That article inspired him to do a live radio variety show. The result of that idea was the basis for the show’s collection of musicians and imaginary people and products. The first program, in 1974, was performed live on a stage before an impressive gathering of twelve people. The show ran thirteen years before Keillor ended it in 1987 and in 1989 began a four year run in New York doing “The American Radio Company” program. In 1993 Keillor changed the show’s name back to “A Prairie Home Companion” and returned it to Minnesota, where it all started. He can be heard daily on “The Writer’s Almanac” segments on National Public Radio and is the author of more than a dozen books, including Lake Wobegon Days, The Book of Guys, Love Me and Homegrown Democrat.
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