Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor was born on August 7, 1942 in Anoka, MN. He is a
humorist, radio personality, voice actor, poet, storyteller, and author of observational
humor. He has written numerous articles at at least twenty books.
Lake Wobegon Days was published in 1985. It is a novel set in the fictional Minnesota
town of Lake Wobegon, which Keillor made famous on his Minnesota Public Radio
show, A Prairie Home Companion, which aired from 1974 to 2016. Kirkus Reviews
writes: "Tales - anywhere from a paragraph to several pages each - pour out head
over heels, outrageous, earthy, warm, sly, always funny even when they're sad. . . . Lake
Wobegon, which now boasts a statue of the Unknown Norwegian, should make room
for another monument: To Keillor, who had the concern and craft to bring it alive."