Father: John Philip Keillor (carpenter, b. 12-Oct-1913, d. 8-Mar-2001 pneumonia)
Mother: Grace Ruth Denham (b. 7-May-1915, d. 27-Jul-2012)
Brother: John Philip Keillor, Jr. (coastal engineer, b. 26-May-1937, d. 27-Feb-2009 ice skating)
Sister: Judy Locke
Sister: Linda Berg
Brother: Stanley Keillor
Brother:Steven J. Keillor (historian, b. 25-Apr-1948)
Wife: Mary Constance Guntzel (m. 1965, div. 1976)
Girlfriend: Margaret Moos (radio producer)
Wife: Ulla Skaerved (m. 28-Dec-1985, div. 1990)
Wife: Jenny Lind Nilsson (violinist, m. 1995, one daughter)
Daughter: Maia Grace Keillor (b. 1997)
University:BA English, University of Minnesota (1966)
National Public Radio
Al Franken for Senate
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
John Kerry for President
MoveOn.org
Obama for America
Obama Victory Fund 2012
The New Yorker Columnist, ended 1992
Radio Hall of Fame 1994
National Humanities Medal 1999
Stroke 6-Sep-2009
Norwegian Ancestry
Scottish Ancestry
A Prairie Home Companion (12-Feb-2006)
The Big One (6-Sep-1997) · Himself
The Civil War (23-Sep-1990)
Official Website:
http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/
Appears on the cover of:
Time, 4-Nov-1985, : Heartland Humor: Let's Hear it for Lake Wobegon -- Author and Radio Bard Garrison Keillor
Author of books:
Happy to Be Here (1981, essays)
Lake Wobegon Days (1985)
Leaving Home (1987)
We Are Still Married (1989, essays)
WLT, A Radio Romance (1991)
The Book of Guys (1993)
The Sandy Bottom Orchestra (1996)
Wobegon Boy (1997)
Me, by Jimmy Big Boy Valente (1999)
Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 (2001)
Good Poems (2002, poetry)
Love Me (2003)
Homegrown Democrat (2004)
AKA Gary Edward Keillor