Books written by Garrison Keillor
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Lake Wobegon Summer 1956
The summer of 1956 in Lake Wobegon is full of the innocent delights of baseball and the agonizing rites of passage for 14-year-old Gary, an unforgettable young protagonist created by an American master.
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Lake Wobegonin päiviä
Lake Wobegonin päiviä
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Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become who We are
And he starts to become a writer, producing fantastic tales about talking dogs, fatal blood diseases, tornadoes, and the lady with the torch."--BOOK JACKET.
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Life Among the Lutherans
The stories in Life among the Lutherans reflect everything Keillor fans have come to expect of this master storyteller. Some are familiar, including the quintessentially Lutheran "95 Theses" from Lake Wobegon Days, others are new.
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A Prairie Home Companion: The Screenplay
The screenplay of iconic radio host Garrison Keillor’s Robert Altman-directed major motion picture, A Prairie Home Companion, starring Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin.
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We Are Still Married: Stories and Letters
“Garrison Keillor made it possible, after twenty years of black humor…to be both funny and nice, hip and winsome, scathing and loving, all in the flick of a single many-barbed quip——The Washington Post Book World “Keillor’s ...
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Prairie Home Christmas
Read with his trademark delivery, Garrison Keillor tells of the ups and downs of small-town life in Lake Wobegon at Christmas time.
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Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America
A reminiscence, a political tract, and a humorous meditation, Homegrown Democrat is an entertaining, refreshing addition to today's rancorous political debate. * A New York Times bestseller * Updated and revised with a new introduction for ...
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Pilgrims: A Lake Wobegon Romance
Lake Wobegon goes to Italy in Garrison Keillor's latest Twelve Wobegonians fly to Rome to decorate a war hero's grave, led by Marjorie Krebsbach, with radio host Gary Keillor along for the ride.
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Lake Wobegon Days
“Lake Wobegon Days is about the way our beliefs, desires and fears tail off into abstractions--and get renewed from time to time. . . this book, unfolding Mr. Keillor's full design, is a genuine work of American history.” —The New ...
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That Time of Year: A Minnesota Life
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.
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A Christmas Blizzard: A Novel
The inimitable Garrison Keillor spins "a Christmas tale that makes Dickens seem unimaginative by comparison" (Charlotte Creative Loafing) Snow is falling all across the Midwest as James Sparrow, a country- bumpkin-turned-energy-drink-tycoon ...
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The Lake Wobegon Virus: A Novel
Praise for the Lake Wobegon books: “Like Mark Twain, Keillor takes time to spell out details and, in so doing, convert the base metal of small-town tedium to the gold of comedy.” —The New York Times “His true subject is how daily ...
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Daddy's Girl
O baby won’t you dance with me Little baby bouncing on my knee Wave your hands and shake your feet Ooohh baby you’re so sweet…/DIV DIV From the familiar pleasures of baby’s favorite food to the joy of dancing together, this ...
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The Keillor Reader
With an extensive introduction and headnotes, photographs, and memorabilia, The Keillor Reader also presents pieces never before published, including the essays “Cheerfulness” and “What We Have Learned So Far.” Keillor is the ...
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Lake Wobegon Summer 1956
With his trademark gift for treading "a line delicate as a cobweb between satire and sentiment"(Cleveland Plain Dealer), Garrison Keillor brilliantly captures a newly minted post-war America and delivers an unforgettable comedy about a ...
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The Book of Guys
The Book of Guys
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Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Novel
Meanwhile, a wedding between a veterinary aromatherapist and her boyfriend Brent is set to take place aboard a pontoon boat.
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Leaving Home
In the first collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Keillor tells readers more about some of the people from Lake Wobegon Days and introduces some new faces.
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Wobegon Boy
John Tollefson, a son of Lake Wobegon, has moved East to manage a radio station at a college for academically challenged children of financially gifted parents in upstate New York.