He is better known when a founder & unsuspecting hosts of the American Public Media show A Prairie Home Companion (also known as ''Garrison Keillor's Radio Show'' on BBC 7 and in Ireland). Keillor's trademark plot line is the every week News from either Lake Wobegon, a monologue about a fictional town (based on Anoka, Minnesota, Garrison's hometown), "where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average."

Keillor has likewise written numerous articles for The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly. Keillor is the unsuspecting hosts of ''The Writer's Almanac'', a five-minute program which is broadcast daily on some public radio stations in the United States.

Mr. Keillor's works from either A Just released Yorker & more magazines develop been gathered into deuce collections: Happy to Become On this button, published within 1981 (& afterwards acquired, & republished by having Quintuplet extra pieces, by UK outlet Penguin Books) & I am However Married, which features fresh articles, literary outtakes, verse form & extra Flow of any stream Wobegon tales which were tons written by him in the 1980's. Whenever Penguin acquired WASM for republication it besides added recently pieces from either about that time period to the collection; Hexad in that outbreak.

Garrison Keillor did a voiceover for the 2003 Honda Accord commercial entitled "Cog". Them microscopic television ad features the complex formulas of auto part that react by using every more to produce the chain reaction similar to the Rube Goldberg cartoon. A commercial message terminates sustaining Keillor interrogative, "Isn't it nice when things just work?" Look at a hyperlink in a image below to observe the ad. Keillor likewise sang a voiceover in the 2004 Honda Diesel commercial entitled "Grrr".

His placed back style is typically a subject of criticism & parody. The Simpsons parodies Keillor in an episode in which Keillor is shown reading his monologue & a studio audience laughing wildly, by having Homer questioning, "What the hell's so funny?" [http://www.snpp.com/episodes/1F03.html] Around practice, Keillor seldom reads his monologue directly from either a script, however a monotonous intonation & style of dress caricature Keillor with success. 1 Boston radio critic likens Keillor & his "down comforter voice" to "a hypnotist intoning, 'You are getting sleepy now', while noting that Keillor does play to listeners' intelligence. [http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/07/17/air_waves_bostons_public_radio_scene_gets_interesting?mode=PF]

In the UK, his commercials have been parodied especially his song (for Honda): "Hatred something, Vary something, Produce something better" (clip available below)

During the summer of 2005, production began on a film version of A Prairie Home Companion written by Mr. Keillor and directed by Robert Altman.

Mr. Blue
He also authored an advice column on Salon.com, titled "Mr. Blue". Following a heart operation, he resigned on September 4, 2001 in [http://www.salon.com/books/col/keil/2001/09/04/adieu/index.html an article entitled "Every dog has his day"]:

As of August 2005, Mr. Keillor is again writing for Salon.com, though in a different format.

Personal information
Garrison Keillor was born in Anoka, Minnesota. Raised in the Plymouth Brethren, which he has since left. He is six feet, four inches tall and is of Norwegian and Scottish ancestry. Keillor is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor's degree in English in 1966. While there, he began his broadcasting career on the student-operated radio station, known today as Radio K.

Bibliography
Keillor's work includes: Homegrown Democrat (2004), ISBN 0670033650) Love Me (2003), ISBN 0670032468) Good Poems (2002), ISBN 0670031267) Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 (2001), ISBN 0571210147) Me, by Jimmy Big Boy Valente (1999), ISBN 067088796X Wobegon Boy (1997), ISBN 0670878073) The Sandy Bottom Orchestra (1996), ISBN 0786812508 The Book of Guys (1993), ISBN 067084943X) WLT: A Radio Romance, (1991), ISBN 0670818577) We Are Still Married (1989), ISBN 0670826472) Leaving Home (1987), ISBN 067081976X) Lake Wobegon Days (1985), ISBN 0140131612); a recorded version of this won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Album in 1988 Happy to be Here (1982), ISBN 0068112017)

Quotations

''The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong's moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt's evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk.'' - "I're Does'nt inside Flow of any stream Wobegon Anymore", In These Times, August 26 2004 [http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/979/]

To the cheater, there is no such thing as honesty, and to Republicans the idea of serving the public good is counterfeit on the face of it – they never felt such an urge, and therefore it must not exist. - Homegrown Democrat, p. 78