Garrison Keillor
Autor/a de Lake Wobegon Days
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: 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
Sèrie
Obres de Garrison Keillor
A Prairie Home Companion Pretty Good Joke Book, Revised & Expanded {2nd Edition} (2000) 434 exemplars
A Prairie Home Companion Commonplace Book: 25 Years on the Air with Garrison Keillor (1999) 40 exemplars
Summer Love: Garrison Keillor and the cast of A Prairie Home Companion (Prairie Home Companion (Music)) (2011) 3 exemplars
Light Moments About Lutherans 3 exemplars
Prodigal Son 3 exemplars
A Prairie Home Companion With Garrison Keillor (30th Anniversary Season Celebration) (2004) 2 exemplars
An Evening With Garrison Keillor, Maya Angelou, Laurie Colwin, Tom Wolfe and Calvin Trillin (2009) 2 exemplars
G.K. the DJ 2 exemplars
One Hundred and One Jell-O Salads 1 exemplars
A Prairie Home Companion - The Last Show [VHS] 1 exemplars
Oxford of Anthology of Actually Very Good Ideas 1 exemplars
News From Calassiene 1 exemplars
Where Rain Comes From 1 exemplars
Pretty Good Bits 1 exemplars
Re-Financing Your Video 1 exemplars
From the Archives, Garrison Keillor's The News From Lake Wobegon, The Best of 1982 (2021) 1 exemplars
The American experience. The wright stuff 1 exemplars
Lake Woebegone Summer 1956 1 exemplars
From the Archives, Garrison Keillor's The News From Lake Wobegon, The Best of 1983 (2022) 1 exemplars
The Danish Solution 1 exemplars
Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion - November 17, 2001 - Live from the campus of St. Olaf College (2004) 1 exemplars
From the Archives, Garrison Keillor's The News From Lake Wobegon, The Best of 1980 (2019) 1 exemplars
From the Archives, Garrison Keillor's The News From Lake Wobegon, The Best of 1981 (2020) 1 exemplars
A Praire Home Christmas 1 exemplars
Time-Life Book Digest: Bad Girls, Good Women | We Are Still Married | Storming Intrepid | Shades of Fortune (1989) 1 exemplars
Stan, A Boy of the North 1 exemplars
Prarie Home Companion, Farewell to 1 exemplars
We're all Republicans now 1 exemplars
A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor; 30th Broadcast Season Celebration [video recording] 1 exemplars
Keillor, Garrison: 'Liberty' - Keillor's Forte Is Resentment And Desire, Not Nostalgia - ArDemGaz, 11/08 1 exemplars
Garrison Keillor and the Hopeful Gospel Quartet 1 exemplars
American Radio Company 23-Nov.-91 1 exemplars
Good Poems {abridged audiobook} 1 exemplars
The Lake Wobegon: Tomato Patch Wars 1 exemplars
A Prairie Home Companion by Garrison Keillor 1 exemplars
The Season of Letter-Perfect Families 1 exemplars
Garrison Keillor: Christmas 1 exemplars
Prairie Home Companion 5 1 exemplars
People I have Known in Days Gone By 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 915 exemplars
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Col·laborador — 706 exemplars
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Col·laborador — 244 exemplars
Figs, Dates, Laurel, and Myrrh: Plants of the Bible and the Quran (2007) — Pròleg, algunes edicions — 31 exemplars
Rabbit Ears Treasury of Tall Tales: Volume One: Davy Crockett, Rip Van Winkle, Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan (1995) — Reader — 15 exemplars
The Defective Detective: Mystery Parodies by the Great Humorists (1992) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars
The Danish Solution: The Rescue of the Jews in Denmark (DVD) — Narrador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Keillor, Garrison
- Nom oficial
- Keillor, Gary Edward
- Data de naixement
- 1942-08-07
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Anoka, Minnesota, USA
- Llocs de residència
- St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
New York, New York, USA - Educació
- University of Minnesota (BA|1966)
- Professions
- radio broadcaster
writer
actor - Organitzacions
- Plymouth Brethren
Minnesota Public Radio
Tribune Media Services
The New Yorker - Premis i honors
- 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) (mostra-les totes 7)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (2016)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
English Majors: A Comedy Collection for the Highly Literate (Guanyador – Audiobook Adaptation – 2009)
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 174
- També de
- 27
- Membres
- 20,977
- Popularitat
- #1,033
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 336
- ISBN
- 599
- Llengües
- 9
- Preferit
- 58