Gary Edward " Garrison " Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American writer, storyteller, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. He is best known as the creator of the Minnesota Public Radio show (MPR) showing A Prairie Home Companion (called Garrison Keillor's Radio Show in several international syndications), which he picked up from 1974 to 2016 Keillor created the fictional town of Minnesota Lake Wobegon, arranging many of his books, including the Wobegon Lake Days and Leaving the House: A Collection of Wobegon Lake Stories . Other creations include Guy Noir, a detective voiced by Keillor who appeared in the play A Prairie Home Companion . In November 2017, Minnesota Public Radio broke off all business ties with Keillor after allegations of inappropriate behavior with staff members. On April 13, 2018, the MPR and Keillor announced a settlement that would allow the archives of A Prairie Home Companion
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Keillor was born in Anoka, Minnesota, son of Grace Ruth ( nÃÆ' Â © e Denham) and John Philip Keillor. His father was a carpenter and a half-Canadian postal worker with an English ancestor; Keillor's grandfather came from Kingston, Ontario. Her maternal grandmother was a Scottish emigrant from Glasgow.
The Keillor family is from the Plymouth Brethren, an Evangelical Christian movement that he has since left behind. In 2006, he told Christianity Today that he attended St. Episcopal St. John Evangelist in Saint Paul, Minnesota, having previously attended the Lutheran church in New York.
Keillor graduated from Anoka High School in 1960 and from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor's degree in English in 1966. During college, he began his broadcasting career at a student-operated radio station known today as Radio K.
In his 2004 book Homegrown Democrat: A Few Empty Minds of the Heart of America, Keillor mentions several important ancestors, including Joseph Crandall, who was a fellow of Roger Williams, who founded Rhode Island and the first American Baptist church; and Prudence Crandall, who founded the first African American school of women in America.
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Careers
Radio
Garrison Keillor began his professional radio career in November 1969 with Minnesota Educational Radio (MER), then Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), which today distributes the program under the American Public Media (APM) brand. He hosted a weekday drive-time broadcast called A Prairie Home Entertainment , at KSJR FM in St. Louis. John's University at Collegeville. The show's eclectic music is the main difference from the usual stationary classic fare. During this time he sent fiction to The New Yorker magazine, where his first story for the publication, "The Local Family Saves the Happy Child," appeared in September 1970.
Keillor resigned from the Morning Program in February 1971 in protest at what he thought disturbed his music programming; as part of his protest, he played nothing but "Help Me, Rhonda" Beach Boys for a single broadcast. When he returned to the station in October, the show was dubbed A Prairie Home Companion .
Keillor had linked the idea to a live Saturday night radio program for his work in 1973 to write about the Grand Ole Opry for The New Yorker, but he had started exhibiting local musicians on the morning show, albeit limited. studio space. In August 1973, MER announced plans to broadcast a Saturday night version of A Prairie Home Companion with live musicians.
A Prairie Home Companion ( PHC ) debuted as an old style variety show prior to a live audience on July 6, 1974; it featured guest musicians and a cadre of performers performing musical numbers and comic plays filled with intricate live sound effects. The event is punctuated by spoof commercial venues for fictitious sponsorship of PHC such as Powdermilk Biscuits, Ketchup Advisory Board, and Professional Organization of English Department (POEM); presents a parodic melodrama series, such as Guy Noir Adventure, Personal Eyes and The Lives of the Cowboys. The voice of Keillor Noir, Lefty cowboy, and other recurring characters, and provides the main vocal or backup for some musical numbers of the event. The show airs from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Louis. Paul.
After the break, Keillor reads a clever and often funny greeting to friends and family at home filed by the members of the theater audience in exchange for honor. Also in the second half of the show, Keillor gave a monologue called News from Lake Wobegon , a fictitious city based in part on Keillor's hometown of Anoka, Minnesota, and in Freeport and other small towns in Stearns County , Minnesota, where he lived in the early 1970s. Lake Wobegon is a small town in Minnesota characterized by the narrator as "... where all women are strong, all men are handsome, and all children are above average."
The original PHC ran until 1987, when Keillor ended it to focus on other projects. In 1989, he launched a new live radio program from New York City, Radio America Air Company , which basically has the same format as PHC . In 1992, he moved the ARC back to St. Paul, and a year later changed his name back to A Prairie Home Companion ; it has remained a fixture on Saturday night's radio broadcasts ever since.
On a typical broadcast of AI Prairie Home Companion, Keillor's name is not mentioned unless a guest calls him by name, though some features of Keillor's sketch as an alter ego, Carson Wyler. In closing credits, Keillor reads, he does not give any bills or credits except "written by Sarah Bellum," a joking reference to his own brain.
Keillor regularly brought radio companies on the road to broadcast from popular places across the United States; tour productions usually feature local celebrities and plays that blend local colors. In April 2000, he brought the program to Edinburgh, Scotland, producing two shows at Queen's Hall town, which was broadcast by BBC Radio. He toured Scotland with a program to celebrate his 25th birthday. (In England, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, the program is known as Garrison Keillor's Radio Show.) Keillor has produced a broadcasting show similar to PHC but without "Prairie Home Companion "brand, as in its 2008 appearance at the Oregon Bach Festival. He is also the master of The Writer's Almanac, from 1993 to 2017, which, like PHC , is produced and distributed by American Public Media.
In an interview in March 2011, Keillor announced that he would retire from the Prairie Home Companion in 2013; but in an interview in December 2011 with Sioux City Journal, Keillor said: "The show is going well I love doing it Why stop?" During an interview on July 20, 2015, Keillor announced his intention to retire from the event after the 2015-2016 season, saying, "I have a lot of other things I want to do, I mean, nobody retires anymore The writer never retires. The summer tour is a farewell tour. "
The final episode of Keillor's event was recorded live for an audience of 18,000 fans at the Hollywood Bowl in California on July 1, 2016, and aired the next day, ending 42 seasons of the show. After the show, President Barack Obama called Keillor to congratulate him. The show continues on October 15, 2016, with Chris Thile as the host.
Write
At the age of thirteen, Keillor adopted the pen name "Garrison" to distinguish his personal life from his professional writing. He usually uses "Garrison" in public and in other media.
Keillor has been called "[o] ne of the most perceptive and intelligent commentator on Midwestern life" by Randall Balmer in the Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism. He has written many magazine and newspaper articles and over a dozen books for both adults and children. In addition to writing for The New Yorker, he has written for The Atlantic Monthly and National Geographic. He also wrote for Salon.com and wrote a suggestion column there with the name "Mr. Blue." After heart surgery, he resigned on September 4, 2001, his last column titled "Every dog ​​has its day":
Illness offers a chance to think long about the future (praying that we do not have one, dear God), and that's how I have, so this is Mr.'s last column. Blue, under my authorship, for Salon. Over the years, Mr.'s strongest advice Blue has come down on the side of freedom in our personal lives, freedom from the destruction of obligations and forced labor and family expectations and the freedom to walk alone and be ourselves. And some of the best letters have been addressed to younger readers who are caught up in work like armor, advising them to let go and go and have adventures. Some advisors have written back to let Mr. Blue that the suggestion was taken and that the adventure changed their lives. It's satisfying.
So now I just accept my own suggestion. Reduce liability: Promote certain elegant elegance in life. Simple as that. Winter and spring, I almost turned upside down from work, and in summer I had one week at St. Hospital. Mary to sit and think, and that's the result. Every dog ​​has a day and I own mine and be given whatever advice I give (and a little more). It's exciting to get a chance to be useful, which is always a problem for a writer (What's the use of fiction?), And Mr. Blue is a way to be useful. There is no human being under the author's attention; basic questions about how to attract lovers and what to do with one time you get one and how to deal with disappointment in marriage are things that are made from fiction, so why not try to speak directly? And I did it. And now it's time to move on.
In 2004 Keillor published a collection of political essays, Homegrown Democrats: A Little Empty Mind from the Heart of America, and in June 2005 he started a column called The Old Scout , which runs on Salon.com and in the syndicated newspaper. This column went on hiatus in April 2010 so that he "... [could] finish the scenario and start writing the novel."
Keillor wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film A Prairie Home Companion, directed by Robert Altman. She also appeared in the movie.
Books Sale
On November 1, 2006, Keillor opened an independent bookstore, "General Good Book, G. Keillor, Prop." in the Blair Arcade Building in the southwest corner of Selby and N. Western Avenues in the Cathedral Hill area within the Saint Paul Summit University, Minnesota. After opening the bookstore, Keillor wrote this poem:
In April 2012, the store moved to a new location on Snelling Avenue opposite Macalester College in the Macalester-Groveland neighborhood.
Voice-over works
Perhaps because of its typical North-Central accent, Keillor is often used as a voice actor. Some important performances include:
- Voice-over artist for Honda UK's "Power of Dreams" campaign. The most memorable campaign ad is the Honda Accord 2003 Cog ad, featuring the Heath Robinson (or Rube Goldberg Machine) tool made entirely of auto parts. The advertisement ends with Keillor asking, "Is not it fun when everything goes?" Since then, Keillor has voiced a slogan for most if not all of Honda's UK advertisements, and even sang a voiceover in the 2006 Honda Diesel commercial Grrr . Her latest ad is a rework of existing ads with a UK flag digitally added to be associated with the World Cup. Keillor's tagline is "Come on, England, keep that dream alive."
- The Sound of the Norse God, Odin in the episode of the Disney animated series Hercules
- Voice of Walt Whitman and other historical figures in the Ken Burns documentary series The Civil War and Baseball
- River Boat Documentary Narrator at the Mississippi River Museum in Dubuque, Iowa
- In 1991, Keillor released Songs of the Cat, the original song album and a parody about the cat.
Reception
In Slate, Sam Anderson calls Keillor "very genius, his own range and stamina are amazing - after 30 years, he rarely repeats himself - and he has the original wisdom of Cosby or the Twin Mark." However, Keillor's "deliberate simplicity", "Anderson wrote," sucks because, after a while, it begins to feel prescriptive. Being a responsible adult does not always mean talking slowly about tomatoes. Anderson also notes that in 1985, when Time magazine called Keillor the funniest person in America, Bill Cosby said, "That's right if you're a pilgrim."
In popular culture
Keillor's style, especially his speaking voice, is often parodied.
- The Simpsons parodies it in an episode where the family is shown watching a Keillor monologue on television; they were confused as to why the audience in the studio laughed so much, prompting Homer to ask, "What's so funny?" and Bart suggested "Maybe it's a TV." Homer then touched the set, exclaimed: "Stupid TV! More funny!"
- On November 19, 2011, the episode of Saturday Night Live , actor Bill Hader disguised as Keillor in a sketch depicting auditing celebrity to replace Regis Philbin as co-host Live! with Kelly .
- A Boston radio critic likes Keillor and his "comforting voice" to "hypnotic intonition," You're getting sleepy now, "reminding her that Keillor is playing for the listener's intelligence.
- The singer and songwriter Pennsylvanian, Tom Flannery, wrote the song in 2003 entitled "I Want Jobs Like Garrison Keillor."
- Two parody books by "Harrison Geillor": The Zombies of Lake Woebegotten and The Twilight of Lake Woebegotten , published by Night Shade Books in 2010 and 2011.
Personal life
Keillor is a member of the Labor-Democrat-Farmer Party. Height 6 feet 3 inches (191 cm). He considers himself a loner and prefers not to make eye contact with people. Although not diagnosed, he also considers himself on the high end of the autism spectrum. He spoke of his experience as an autistic person in his keynote address at the 19th Annual Minnesota Autism Conference in 2014.
Keillor has been married three times. He married Mary Guntzel from 1965 to 1976; they have one son, Jason (born 1969). She married Ulla Skaerved, a former exchange student from Denmark at Keillor High School whom she met in class reunion, from 1985 to 1990. She married classic string player Jenny Lind Nilsson (born 1957), also from Anoka. , in 1995. They have one daughter, Maia Grace Keillor (born December 29, 1997).
Between his first and second marriage, Keillor engaged with Margaret Moos, who worked as a producer of A Prairie Home Companion .
On September 7, 2009, Keillor was hospitalized after suffering a mild stroke. He returned to work a few days later.
Controversy
In 2005, Keillor's lawyer sent a stop-and-stop letter to MNSpeak.com regarding the production of their t-shirt with the phrase "A Prairie Ho Companion".
In 2006, following a visit to United Methodist Church in Highland Park, Texas, Keillor created a local controversy with his remarks about the event, including rhetorical suggestions about the relationship between participants and supporters of torture and statements that created the impression of political intimidation: "I came in, greeted by two security officers... and within 10 minutes was told by three people that this is the Bush church and that it would be better if I did not talk about politics. " In response, the lecture series coordinator said two "strong security officers" were a local police and the church's own security watchdog, both present due to an agreement with publisher Keillor mentioning that the venue provided security. In addition the coordinator said that Mr. Keillor arrives at the church, refuses introduction and gets onto the stage without a chance to mingle with the audience, so he does not know when this warning might have been issued. Humas agrees, saying that Keillor has no contact with church members or people in the audience before he speaks. Supposedly, before Keillor's comments, participants in the event considered the visit to be warm and warm. Asked to respond, Keillor sticks to his story, describing the people who advised him not to discuss politics and said that he does not have a security guard at other stops on the tour.
In 2007, Keillor wrote a column that partially criticized the "stereotypical" gay parent, whom he said were "sarcastic people with cranky hair who lived in over-decorated apartments with striped couches and weird, adorable little dogs camp players. " Responding to the strong reaction of many readers, Keillor said:
I live in a small world - entertainment world, musicians, writers - where gay is the same as having brown eyes... And in that small world, we talk openly and we often joke around. But in a bigger world, gayness is controversial... and thus gay people feel besieged to some extent and rightly so... My column speaks when we speak in my small world, and it is read by people in a world that bigger and a misunderstanding. And for that, I'm sorry. Gay people who leave for parents can be good parents like everyone else, and they know it, so do I.
In 2008, Keillor created a controversy in St. Petersburg. Paul when he filed a lawsuit against his neighbor's plan to build an extra at his home, calling for his "light and air" needs and "open and beyond" view. The Keillor House is significantly larger than the other in its environment and it will remain much larger than its neighbors with the planned addition. Keillor came to a secluded settlement with his neighbors shortly after the story became public.
In 2009, one of Keillor's "Scouting" columns contained references to "bad Jewish holiday songs by the Jews" and complaints about "Silent Night" as rewritten by Unitarian, disappointing some readers. A Unitarian minister named Cynthia Landrum replied, "Listening to him talk about us for years, it's becoming increasingly clear that he's not laughing at us - he's laughing at us," while Jeff Jacoby of Boston Globe called Keillor " fussy and intolerant ".
Separation from MPR
On November 29, 2017, the Star Tribune reported that Minnesota Public Radio ended all business ties with Keillor as a result of "alleged inappropriate behavior with someone working with him." In January 2018, MPR CEO Jon McTaggart explained that they had received allegations about "dozens" of inappropriate sexual incidents, including requests for sexual contact. Keillor denied making a mistake and said that his shooting came from an incident when he touched a woman's back while trying to comfort her. He stated that he apologized to her soon after, that they had made up, and that she was shocked to hear the charges when her lawyer called.
In his declaration of dismissal, the MPR announced that Keillor would retain his executive credit for the event, but because he had a trademark for the phrase "companion of a prairie home", they would stop re-broadcasting episodes of A Prairie Home Companion Keillor and remove the trademarked phrase from the radio show hosted by Chris Thile. The MPR also removed its business connections to PrairieHome.org and canceled Keillor's The Writer's Almanac program. The Washington Post also canceled Keillor's weekly column when they learned that he continued to write columns, including the controversial section criticizing Al Franken's resignation for allegations of sexual offenses, without revealing that he was being investigated in the MPR. Some fans wrote the MPR to protest his dismissal, and by the end of the year, 153 members had canceled their membership because of it. In January 2018, Keillor announced he was mediating with the MPR over the shootings. On January 23, 2018, the MPR reported more about the investigation after interviewing nearly 60 people who had worked with Keillor. Her story portrays allegations of Keillor's other sexual offenses, and a $ 16,000 payment to a woman who was asked to sign a confidentiality agreement to prevent her talking about her time in the MPR (she refused and never deposited the check).
Completions and access to archived events
Keillor received a letter from MPR CEO Jon McTaggart dated April 5, 2018, confirming that both parties wanted the A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer's Almanac to be available to the public again. In the letter, McTaggart indicated the recovery could happen soon enough after the last few details were completed. According to the MPR News, the MPR will pay Keillor $ 275,000, no party will demand another, and archives from both events will be available again towards the end of April 2018 at prairiehome.org and writersalmanac.org, with the possibility of archives moving elsewhere. after three years.
Awards and other acknowledgments
- "A Prairie Home Companion" received a Peabody Award in 1980.
- Keillor received the Medal for Oral Languages ​​from the American Academy of Art and Literature in 1990.
- In 1994, Keillor was sworn in as the National Radio Hall of Fame.
- He received the National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1999.
- The "Welcome to Minnesota" marker on the interstate breaks near the state border includes statements such as "Like its neighbor, the thirty-second state grew as a collection of small farming communities, many of which were inhabited by immigrants from Scandinavia and Germany Two of the smaller towns this nation's favorite fiction - Gopher Prairie by Sinclair Lewis and Garrison Keillor on Lake Wobegon - reflects that legacy. "
- In 2007, The Moth, a NYC-based non-profit storytelling organization, rewards Garrison Keillor's first Moth Award-honoring Art Raconteur at the annual Moth Ball.
- In September 2007, Keillor was awarded the 2007 John Steinbeck Prize, awarded to artists who capture "Steinbeck's spirit of empathy, a commitment to democratic values, and a belief in the dignity of ordinary people."
- Keillor received a Grammy Award in 1988 for the recording of Lake Wobegon Days .
- In 2016, he received the Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature.
- He also received two CableACE Awards and George Foster Peabody Awards.
Bibliography
Printed Keillor works include:
Lake Wobegon
- Lake Wobegon Days (1985), ISBN: 0-14-013161-2; this recording version won the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Album in 1988
- Leaving Home (1987; a collection of the Wobegon Lake story), ISBNÃ, 0-670-81976-X
- We Are Still Married (1989; a collection includes some of the stories of Lake Wobegon), ISBNÃ, 0-670-82647-2
- Wobegon Boy (1997), ISBNÃ, 0-670-87807-3
- Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 (2001), ISBNÃ, 0-571-21014-7
- Looking for Lake Wobegon (Photos by Richard Olsenius, 2001), ISBN 978-0-670-03037-8
- Ponton: Wobegon Lake Novel (2007), ISBNÃ, 0-670-06356-8
- Freedom: The Lake Wobegon Novel (2008), ISBNÃ, 0-670-01991-7
- The Life of the Lutheran (2009), ISBN 978-0-8066-7061-4
- Pilgrim: A Wobegon Romance (2009), ISBNÃ, 978-0-670-02109-3
Other works
- G.K. The D.J. (1977)
- Great to Be Here (1981), ISBN: 0-06-811201-7
- WLT: A Radio Romance , (1991), ISBNÃ, 0-670-81857-7
- The Book of Guys (1993), ISBNÃ, 0-670-84943-X
- The Sandy Bottom Orchestra (with Jenny Lind Nilsson, 1996), ISBNÃ, 0-7868-1250-8
- I, by Jimmy "Big Boy" Valente (1999), ISBNÃ, 0-670-88796-X
- Love Me (2003), ISBNÃ, 0-670-03246-8
- Homegrown Democrat: A Little Blank Mind from the American Heart (2004), ISBNÃ, 0-670-03365-0
- Daddy's Girl (2005), ISBNÃ, 978-1-4231-0514-5
- A Christmas Blizzard (2009), ISBNÃ, 978-0-670-02136-9
- Guy Noir and Straight Skinny (2012), ISBNÃ, 0-143-12081-6
Poetry
- Selected Article Margaret Haskins Durber (1979)
- 77 Love Sonnets (2009), ISBNÃ, 0-14-311527-8
- O, What's Luxury (2013)
Poetry anthology
- Good Poetry (2002), ISBNÃ, 0-670-03126-7
- Good Poems for Hard Times (2005), ISBNÃ, 0-670-03436-3
- Good Poetry, American Places (2011), ISBNÃ, 0-670-02254-3
Contributions to The New Yorker
Reference
Further reading
- How Buckley, "The Garrison Keillor You Never Knew," New York Times, June 16, 2016.
External links
- Official website
- Garrison Keillor on IMDb
- A Prairie Home Companion radio website Garrison Keillor public radio
- Almanac site author Garrison Keillor's daily poetry program
- Minnesota Zen Master - detailed profile Garrison Keillor, published at The Guardian , March 6, 2004.
- The Kernyitan Kingdom in Wayback Machine (archived December 10, 2010) - The feature article from The ReykjavÃÆ'k Grapevine about Garrison Keillor
- A Prairie Home Conundrum Slate June 16, 2006
- Interview with Garrison Keillor at Everydayyeah.com
- Garrison Keillor - The Man on the Radio at Red Shoes PBS American Masters
- Spoken by Keillor at Concordia University February 15, 2011
- Paris Review 1995 interview
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