Keillor, Garrison Edward (1942– )

US writer and humorist. His hometown of Anoka, Minnesota, in the American Midwest, inspired his popular, richly comic stories about Lake Wobegon, including Lake Wobegon Days (1985) and Leaving Home (1987), which often started as radio monologues about ‘the town that time forgot, that the decades cannot improve’. He revisited the scene of Lake Wobegon Days in Wobegon Boy (1997) and Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 (2001).

Later works also include We Are Still Married (1989), Radio Romance (1991), The Book of Guys (1993), Me: A Political Satire (1999), and Love Me (2003).

He first achieved prominence on his popular Saturday-night public radio show, A Prairie Home Companion, which has been running since 1974.

From 1999 to 2001, Keillor wrote a column Dear Mr. Blue: Advice for Lovers and Writers on the Web site Salon.com. He was awarded a National Humanities Medal in 1999.