Keillor

Keillor
(1942– )
a humorous US writer and broadcaster. His popular weekly radio programme, A Prairie Home Companion, which began in 1974, includes News From Lake Wobegon, an imaginary town in Minnesota. It is broadcast in the UK and Ireland as well as the US. Keillor’s books include Lake Wobegon Days (1985), We Are Still Married (1989), Home Grown Democrat (2003) and a book for children, The Old Man Who Loved Cheese (1996).

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