![]() Keillor in 2010, wearing his signature red shoes On April 13, 2018, MPR and Keillor announced a settlement that allows archives of A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer's Almanac to be publicly available again, and soon thereafter, Keillor began publishing new episodes of The Writer's Almanac on his website. In November 2017, Minnesota Public Radio cut all business ties with Keillor after an allegation of inappropriate behavior with a freelance writer for A Prairie Home Companion. ![]() ![]() Keillor is also the creator of the five-minute daily radio/podcast program The Writer's Almanac, which pairs one or two poems of his choice with a script about important literary, historical, and scientific events that coincided with that date in history. Other creations include Guy Noir, a detective voiced by Keillor who appeared in A Prairie Home Companion comic skits. Keillor created the fictional Minnesota town Lake Wobegon, the setting of many of his books, including Lake Wobegon Daysand Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories. He created the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prairie Home Companion (called Garrison Keillor's Radio Show in some international syndication), which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. Gary Edward " Garrison" Keillor ( / ˈ k iː l ər/ born August 7, 1942) is an American author, singer, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality. ![]()
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