Garrison Keillor
Autor de Lake Wobegon Days
Sobre El 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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: 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
Series
Obras de Garrison Keillor
A Prairie Home Companion Pretty Good Joke Book, Revised & Expanded {2nd Edition} (2000) 448 copias, 3 reseñas
A Prairie Home Companion Commonplace Book: 25 Years on the Air with Garrison Keillor (1999) 40 copias
Prodigal Son 3 copias
Summer Love: Garrison Keillor and the cast of A Prairie Home Companion (Prairie Home Companion (Music)) (2011) 3 copias
Light Moments About Lutherans 3 copias
G.K. the DJ 2 copias
Brisk Verse 2 copias
An Evening With Garrison Keillor, Maya Angelou, Laurie Colwin, Tom Wolfe and Calvin Trillin (2009) 2 copias
A Prairie Home Companion With Garrison Keillor (30th Anniversary Season Celebration) (2004) 2 copias
Pretty Good Bits 1 copia
Lake Woebegone Summer 1956 1 copia
The Danish Solution 1 copia
Re-Financing Your Video 1 copia
Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion - November 17, 2001 - Live from the campus of St. Olaf College (2004) 1 copia
Time-Life Book Digest: Bad Girls, Good Women | We Are Still Married | Storming Intrepid | Shades of Fortune (1989) 1 copia
Lake Wobegan Day's 1 copia
Good Poems {abridged audiobook} 1 copia
We're all Republicans now 1 copia
A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor; 30th Broadcast Season Celebration [video recording] 1 copia
News From Calassiene 1 copia
Garrison Keillor: Christmas 1 copia
Prairie Home Companion 5 1 copia
Stan, A Boy of the North 1 copia
Where Rain Comes From 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Biblioteca Grandes del Cómic: Snoopy y Carlitos Nº 01 (1950 a 1952) (2004) — Introducción — 1,214 copias, 22 reseñas
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 938 copias, 7 reseñas
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Contribuidor — 716 copias, 6 reseñas
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Contribuidor — 250 copias, 3 reseñas
Figs, Dates, Laurel, and Myrrh: Plants of the Bible and the Quran (2007) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 32 copias, 1 reseña
Rabbit Ears Treasury of Tall Tales: Volume One: Davy Crockett, Rip Van Winkle, Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan (1995) — Reader — 15 copias
Historic Photos of the Opry: Ryman Auditorium 1974 (2007) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 8 copias, 1 reseña
The Danish Solution: The Rescue of the Jews in Denmark (DVD) — Narrador — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Keillor, Garrison
- Nombre legal
- Keillor, Gary Edward
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1942-08-07
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Anoka, Minnesota, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
New York, New York, USA - Educación
- University of Minnesota (BA|1966)
- Ocupaciones
- radio broadcaster
writer
actor - Organizaciones
- Plymouth Brethren
Minnesota Public Radio
Tribune Media Services
The New Yorker - Premios y honores
- 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) (mostrar todos 7)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (2016)
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 178
- También por
- 27
- Miembros
- 21,288
- Popularidad
- #1,018
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 337
- ISBNs
- 602
- Idiomas
- 9
- Favorito
- 58