The Keillor Reader

The Keillor Reader

<b>Stories, essays, poems, and personal reminiscences from the sage of Lake Wobegon</b><br> <br>When, at thirteen, he caught on as a sportswriter for the Anoka Herald, Garrison Keillor set out to become a professional writer, and so he has done—a storyteller, sometime comedian, essayist, newspaper columnist, screenwriter, poet. Now a single volume brings together the full range of his work: monologues from<i> A Prairie Home Companion</i>, stories from <i>The New Yorker</i> and <i>The Atlantic</i>, excerpts from novels, newspaper columns. With an extensive introduction and headnotes, photographs, and memorabilia, <i>The Keillor Reader</i> also presents pieces never before published, including the essays “Cheerfulness” and “What We Have Learned So Far.”<br> <br>Keillor is the founder and host of <i>A Prairie Home Companion</i>, celebrating its fortieth anniversary in 2014. He is the author of nineteen books of fiction and humor, the editor of the <i>Good Poems</i> collections, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.