Keillor Garrison
Keillor Garrison - That Time Of Year A Minnesota Life - Paperback
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Description: 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 - two years 1,557 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 Ren e 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. The paperback edition has been revised with a new preface by the author.
Title: That Time Of Year A Minnesota Life
Author(s): Keillor Garrison
Publisher: Arcade
Barcode: 9781956763171
Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/7/2023
Category: Biography: Arts & Entertainment
Description: 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 - two years 1,557 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 Ren e 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. The paperback edition has been revised with a new preface by the author.
Title: That Time Of Year A Minnesota Life
Author(s): Keillor Garrison
Publisher: Arcade
Barcode: 9781956763171
Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/7/2023
Category: Biography: Arts & Entertainment
