Mother, father, uncle, aunt stories from Lake Wobegon (Prairie home companion (Radio program))
Physical Description: |
3 sound discs (ca. 3 hrs.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in. |
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Production Credits: |
Produced by Christine Tschida with Paul Baron, engineer. |
ISBN: |
1565112695 9781565112698 |
Author Notes: |
In 1974, he wrote an essay for the New Yorker about the Grand Ole Opry, which led to his live radio program, A Prairie Home Companion. Stories from Prairie Home were collected and published, but his debut as a novelist was in 1985 with Lake Wobegon Days. His other novels include WLT: A Radio Romance, The Book of Guys, Wobegon Boy, Me by Jimmy (Big Boy) Valente, and Good Poems, American Places. He has also written the children's books Cat, You Better Come Home, The Old Man Who Loved Cheese, and The Sandy Bottom Orchestra. He won a Grammy Award for his recording of Lake Wobegon Days and was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1994. Keillor received a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1999. In September 2007, Keillor was awarded the John Steinbeck Award. (Bowker Author Biography) |