| Garrison Keillor  AKA Gary Edward Keillor
Born: 7-Aug-1942
Birthplace: Anoka, MN
Gender: Male
Religion: Anglican/Episcopalian [1]
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Radio Personality, Author
Party Affiliation: Democratic [2] Nationality: United States
Executive summary: A Prairie Home Companion Folksy host of the public radio variety show A Prairie Home Companion from 1974-87 and again since 1993. Has announced his retirement, but the program is expected to continue without him.
[1] Was born Plymouth Brethren, has been Lutheran, is now Episcopalian.
[2] Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
Father: John Philip Keillor (carpenter, b. 12-Oct-1913, d. 8-Mar-2001 pneumonia)
Mother: Grace Ruth Denham (b. 7-May-1915, d. 27-Jul-2012)
Brother: John Philip Keillor, Jr. (coastal engineer, b. 26-May-1937, d. 27-Feb-2009 ice skating)
Sister: Judy Locke
Sister: Linda Berg
Brother: Stanley Keillor
Brother: Steven J. Keillor (historian, b. 25-Apr-1948)
Wife: Mary Constance Guntzel (m. 1965, div. 1976)
Girlfriend: Margaret Moos (radio producer)
Wife: Ulla Skaerved (m. 28-Dec-1985, div. 1990)
Wife: Jenny Lind Nilsson (violinist, m. 1995, one daughter)
Daughter: Maia Grace Keillor (b. 1997)
University: BA English, University of Minnesota (1966)
National Public Radio
Al Franken for Senate
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
John Kerry for President
MoveOn.org
Obama for America
Obama Victory Fund 2012
The New Yorker Columnist, ended 1992
Radio Hall of Fame 1994
National Humanities Medal 1999
Stroke 6-Sep-2009
Norwegian Ancestry
Scottish Ancestry
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
A Prairie Home Companion (12-Feb-2006)
The Big One (6-Sep-1997) · Himself
The Civil War (23-Sep-1990)
Official Website:
http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/
Appears on the cover of:
Time, 4-Nov-1985, DETAILS: Heartland Humor: Let's Hear it for Lake Wobegon -- Author and Radio Bard Garrison Keillor
Author of books:
Happy to Be Here (1981, essays)
Lake Wobegon Days (1985)
Leaving Home (1987)
We Are Still Married (1989, essays)
WLT, A Radio Romance (1991)
The Book of Guys (1993)
The Sandy Bottom Orchestra (1996)
Wobegon Boy (1997)
Me, by Jimmy Big Boy Valente (1999)
Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 (2001)
Good Poems (2002, poetry)
Love Me (2003)
Homegrown Democrat (2004)
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