Garrison Keillor, creator and host of Minnesota Public Radio's "A Prairie Home Companion,"
Keillor, 58, graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1966 and went to work for Minnesota Public Radio three years later. ("My last job interview, I trust," he says now.) "A Prairie Home Companion" originated as a live variety show in 1974. In addition to conducting the show, Keillor hosts National Public Radio's "Writer's Almanac," a daily program of poetry and history. He has written short stories, novels, a weekly column for the online magazine Salon, and occasional essays for Time.
In 1969 he began writing for The New Yorker.
he has written poetry and is a consummate story-teller whose voice can be heard on numerous recordings. He is married to violinist, Jenny Lind Nilsson, with whom he has a daughter.