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Author Keillor, Garrison, author.

Title That time of year : a Minnesota life / Garrison Keillor.

Publisher New York : Arcade Publishing, 2020.
2020

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ITEM LOC CALL # STATUS
 Hayward adult and young adult nonfiction  818.54 KEI    AVAILABLE
 Superior adult nonfiction  921 K265k Keillor, Garrison    AVAILABLE
Edition First edition.
Descript 360 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm
Note Nonfiction.
Summary "With the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty years, 750 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Renee Fleming and once sang two songs to the U.S. Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy, gave the news from his hometown, Lake Wobegon, and met Somali cabdrivers who'd learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels, won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal, and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation. He says, "I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That's the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I'm heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day.""-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Keillor, Garrison.
Prairie home companion (Radio program)
Humorists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Entertainers -- United States -- Biography.
Genre Autobiographies.
ISBN/ISSN 9781951627683 (hardback)
1951627687 (hardback)