The Keillor Reader

**Stories, essays, poems, and personal reminiscences from the sage of Lake Wobegon**

When, at thirteen, he caught on as a sportswriter for the Anoka Herald, Garrison Keillor set out to become a professional writer, and so he has done—a storyteller, sometime comedian, essayist, newspaper columnist, screenwriter, poet. Now a single volume brings together the full range of his work: monologues from* A Prairie Home Companion*, stories from *The New Yorker* and *The Atlantic*, excerpts from novels, newspaper columns. 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 founder and host of *A Prairie Home Companion*, celebrating its fortieth anniversary in 2014. He is the author of nineteen books of fiction and humor, the editor of the *Good Poems* collections, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.