Garrison Keillor

Biography

Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor is an American author, storyteller, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality born on August 7, 1942. He is best known for creating the fictional Minnesota town Lake Wobegon, the setting of many of his books, including A Prairie Home Companion, which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. Keillor also created Guy Noir, a detective voiced by himself, and The Writer's Almanac, a daily radio/podcast program pairing poems with historical scripts.