Radio Host Garrison Keillor Brings One Man Show - STORIES FROM LAKE WOBEGON, to Kingsbury Hall, 12/7

Garrison Keillor, best known for hosting A Prairie Home Companion for over three decades on NPR, will perform his one-man show, Stories From Lake Wobegon, at Kingsbury Hall on the University of Utah campus on Monday, December 7 at 7:30 p.m. 

Garrison Keillor was born in 1942 in Anoka, Minnesota, and began his radio career as a freshman at the University of Minnesota, from which he graduated in 1966. He went to work for Minnesota Public Radio in 1969, and on July 6, 1974, he hosted the first broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion in St. Paul.

Keillor has received numerous awards, including a Grammy Award for his recording of Lake Wobegon Days. He has also received two Cable ACE Awards and a George Foster Peabody Award. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and recently was presented with a National Humanities Medal by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1994, he was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame at Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications.

He is also the author of many books, including Lake Wobegon Days (1985); The Book of Guys (1993); The Old Man Who Loved Cheese (1996); Wobegon Boy (1997); Me: By Jimmy "Big Boy" Valente As Told to Garrison Keillor (1999); Love Me (2003); Homegrown Democrat (2004); and Pontoon (2007). His newest book is Liberty: A Lake Wobegon Novel (2008).

Tickets are $44.50 - $24.50 and are available by calling 801-581-7100 or visiting www.kingtix.com.

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