Radio: Garrison Keillor is many things: an author, a humorist, and a Radio personality. Keillor began his broadcasting career at the University of Minnesota while still a freshman.
In 1969, he joined Minnesota Public Radio and beginning July 6, 1974, began hosting from St. Paul what he is probably best known for, his weekly National Public Radio program, A Prairie Home Companion.
The program ended in 1987, then started back up from New York in 1989 under a different name, The American Radio Company. In 1993, Keillor went back to Minnesota and continued the show once again under the name, A Prairie Home Companion.
Today, the program is aired on about 600 Radio stations and heard each week by about 4 million listeners weekly.
Awards: Keillor has won a Grammy Award for his recording of Lake Wobegon Days, two ACE Awards for cable TV, and a George Foster Peabody Award. In 1994, Keillor was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame at the Chicago Museum of Broadcast Communications.
Online: Visit Garrison Keillor's website at prairiehome.publicradio.org.
