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• Gary Edward Keillor was born on the 7th August 1942, in Anoka, Minnesota USA, of English and Scottish descent. 
• He is a radio personality and host, who is probably best known for hosting his own radio show called “A Prairie Home Companion” on the Minnesota Public Radio station. 
• He is also known as an author of several books, such as his best-selling book “Lake Wobegon Days”. 
• His career has been active since 1969. 
• It is estimated by sources that the total size of Garrison’s net worth is over $5 million, which has been accumulated through his successful involvement in the entertainment industry, not only as a radio personality but also as an author. 
• Other than that, Garrison has also been the owner of a bookstore since 2006, which has also increased his net worth. 
• Garrison Keillor was born to Grace Ruth and John Philip Keillor, who worked as a carpenter and also a postal worker. 
• He attended Anoka High School, and after matriculation in 1960, Garrison enrolled at the University of Minnesota, from which he graduated with a BA degree in English in 1966. 
• Thanks to the immense popularity of the show, Garrison’s name became extremely popular, and his net worth began to grow; over the years, the show became the main source of his net worth. 
• Besides that, Garrison is also known for his books and column writing. 
• He has authored several books, including “Lake Wobegon Days” in 1985, “WLT: A Radio Romance” in 1991, “Love Me” (2003), “Liberty: A Novel of Lake Wobegon” in 2008, and “Guy Noir And The Straight Skinny” in 2012, among others, all of which have contributed to his net worth. 
• He has also recognized for his voice-over work, as he has voiced Walt Whitman in the documentary film “Civil War” by Ken Burns, and has also provided his voice to Norse god Odin in the animated film “Hercules” (1998), all of which have increased his net worth. 
• Thanks to his successful career, Garrison has received several prestigious awards, including the Peabody Award for his work on “A Prairie Home Companion”, and in 2007 he received the John Steinbeck Award for literature. 
• Furthermore, he was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1994, and having in 1988 received a Grammy Award for the recording of his book “Lake Wobegon Days”. 
• Also, he has won two CableACE Awards, among many other recognitions and awards. 
• If to talk about his personal life, Garrison Keillor has been married to violist Jenny Lind Nilsson since 1995; the couple has one child together. 
• Previously, he was married to Mary Guntzel (1965-1976), with whom he has a child, and later, he was in a marriage with Ulla Skaerved from 1985 to 1990. 
• In their free time, he is politically active as a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. 
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Gary Edward Keillor Quotes

• Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it’s a problem to be overcome.
• [summarizing a proposed film project] It’s got a funeral, it’s got a big Fourth of July parade and, you know, two people taking each other’s clothes off. Everything we look for in a movie.
• I think the most un-American thing you can say is “You can’t say that”.
• When you’re in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have – at least, I had – vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you’re depressed because you haven’t done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can’t be John Updike, well, then, you can’t. If you can’t be Philip Roth, then don’t. So you’ll do this other thing instead. And maybe you’ll be writing the very thing that John Updike and Philip Roth wish to hell they could. They’re neither of them particularly funny; maybe that’s what they’ve always wanted to do.
• I love New York, and I’m drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I’ve just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.
• I am in favor of corruption so long as it makes people truly happy. And so long as somebody writes a good confessional memoir-like John Dean’s “Blind Ambition.”
• I’ve wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers’ work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
• A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
• Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.
• I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
• Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Gary Edward Keillor Important Facts

• Recovering in a hospital after suffering a minor stroke on September 7, 2009.
• Garrison Keillor was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1994.

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