Garrison Keillor

Gary Edward Garrison Keillor born August 7 1942 is an American author storyteller humorist voice actor and radio personality He is best known as the creator of the Minnesota Public Radio MPR show A Prairie Home Companion called Garrison Keillors 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 fiveminute daily radiopodcast program The Writers Almanac which pairs one or two poems of his choice with a script about important literary historical and scientific events that coincided with that date in history From Wikipedia US the free encyclopedia