ABSTRACT
Garrison Keillor was born to John P and Grace R. Keillor in Anoka, Minnesota, on August 7, 1942. Keillor always wanted to be a writer, but he did not have an easy time getting to where he could live on what he earned by writing. After finishing high school in Anoka he attended the University of Minnesota where he worked at the university radio station. When he graduated in 1966, he failed to find work in publishing and returned to Minnesota and radio, doing a five-day-a-week early morning classical music show for a public radio station at St. John's University in Collegeville. In 1974, Keillor went to Nashville, Tennessee, to do a piece for The New Yorker on the Grand Ole Opry, and from this he got the idea of doing his own evening radio show.
