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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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Birth: | 7th August, 1942 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Author, Radio Personality |
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor was born in Anoka, Minnesota, USA. He is an American author and radio personality. He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion. He has written the screenplay for the 2006 movie A Prairie Home Companion. He has written several books include: Lake Wobegon Days(novel), Pontoon(novel), Wobegon boy(novel), WLT: A Radio Romance(novel), Liberty(novel), The Keillor Reader, Leaving Home, The Book of Guys, Homegrown Democrat, Life Among the Lutherans, A Christmas Blizzard, Happy to be Here, and Good Poems for Hard Times. He earned his bachelor's degree in English from the University of Minnesota in 1966.
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