Garrison Keillor
Auteur van Het leven in Lake Wobegon
Over de Auteur
Humorist Garrison Keillor was born Gary Edward Keillor in Anoka, Minnesota on August 7, 1942. He began using the pen name Garrison at the age of thirteen. He received a B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1966 and paid for his tuition by working at the campus radio station. In 1974, he wrote toon meer an essay for the New Yorker about the Grand Ole Opry, which led to his live radio program, A Prairie Home Companion. Stories from Prairie Home were collected and published, but his debut as a novelist was in 1985 with Lake Wobegon Days. His other novels include WLT: A Radio Romance, The Book of Guys, Wobegon Boy, Me by Jimmy (Big Boy) Valente, and Good Poems, American Places. He has also written the children's books Cat, You Better Come Home, The Old Man Who Loved Cheese, and The Sandy Bottom Orchestra. He won a Grammy Award for his recording of Lake Wobegon Days and was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1994. Keillor received a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1999. In September 2007, Keillor was awarded the John Steinbeck Award. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Garrison Keillor Poetry Reading Taken at the 2011 National Book Festival in Washington DC. Photo by ideonexus. By Ryan Somma - https://www.flickr.com/photos/ideonexus/6190507095, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33740478
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Werken van Garrison Keillor
A Prairie Home Companion Pretty Good Joke Book, Revised & Expanded {2nd Edition} (2000) 434 exemplaren
A Prairie Home Companion Commonplace Book: 25 Years on the Air with Garrison Keillor (1999) 40 exemplaren
Garrison Keillor: Light Moments About Lutherans- Pontoon Boat / Pastor Ingqvist's Trip to Orlando / Lutheran… 4 exemplaren
Summer Love: Garrison Keillor and the cast of A Prairie Home Companion (Prairie Home Companion (Music)) (2011) 3 exemplaren
Light Moments About Lutherans 3 exemplaren
Prodigal Son 3 exemplaren
A Prairie Home Companion With Garrison Keillor (30th Anniversary Season Celebration) (2004) 2 exemplaren
An Evening With Garrison Keillor, Maya Angelou, Laurie Colwin, Tom Wolfe and Calvin Trillin (2009) 2 exemplaren
G.K. the DJ 2 exemplaren
One Hundred and One Jell-O Salads 1 exemplaar
A Prairie Home Companion - The Last Show [VHS] 1 exemplaar
Oxford of Anthology of Actually Very Good Ideas 1 exemplaar
News From Calassiene 1 exemplaar
Where Rain Comes From 1 exemplaar
Pretty Good Bits 1 exemplaar
Re-Financing Your Video 1 exemplaar
From the Archives, Garrison Keillor's The News From Lake Wobegon, The Best of 1982 (2021) 1 exemplaar
The American experience. The wright stuff 1 exemplaar
Lake Woebegone Summer 1956 1 exemplaar
From the Archives, Garrison Keillor's The News From Lake Wobegon, The Best of 1983 (2022) 1 exemplaar
The Danish Solution 1 exemplaar
Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion - November 17, 2001 - Live from the campus of St. Olaf College (2004) 1 exemplaar
From the Archives, Garrison Keillor's The News From Lake Wobegon, The Best of 1980 (2019) 1 exemplaar
From the Archives, Garrison Keillor's The News From Lake Wobegon, The Best of 1981 (2020) 1 exemplaar
A Praire Home Christmas 1 exemplaar
Time-Life Book Digest: Bad Girls, Good Women | We Are Still Married | Storming Intrepid | Shades of Fortune (1989) 1 exemplaar
Stan, A Boy of the North 1 exemplaar
Prarie Home Companion, Farewell to 1 exemplaar
We're all Republicans now 1 exemplaar
A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor; 30th Broadcast Season Celebration [video recording] 1 exemplaar
Keillor, Garrison: 'Liberty' - Keillor's Forte Is Resentment And Desire, Not Nostalgia - ArDemGaz, 11/08 1 exemplaar
Garrison Keillor and the Hopeful Gospel Quartet 1 exemplaar
American Radio Company 23-Nov.-91 1 exemplaar
Good Poems {abridged audiobook} 1 exemplaar
The Lake Wobegon: Tomato Patch Wars 1 exemplaar
A Prairie Home Companion by Garrison Keillor 1 exemplaar
The Season of Letter-Perfect Families 1 exemplaar
Garrison Keillor: Christmas 1 exemplaar
Prairie Home Companion 5 1 exemplaar
People I have Known in Days Gone By 1 exemplaar
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- Gangbare naam
- Keillor, Garrison
- Officiële naam
- Keillor, Gary Edward
- Geboortedatum
- 1942-08-07
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- Anoka, Minnesota, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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- University of Minnesota (BA|1966)
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- Plymouth Brethren
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Tribune Media Services
The New Yorker - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- National Humanities Medal (1999)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2001)
National Radio Hall of Fame (1994)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Medal (1990)
John Steinbeck Award (2007)
Grammy Award (1988) (toon alle 7)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (2016)
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