Fresh Air, Garrison Keillor

Writer and radio personality Garrison Keillor on this edition of Fresh Air. Garrison Keillor is the host and writer of A Prairie Home Companion, broadcast from Minnesota and heard weekly on public radio stations nationwide. Last year, Keillor published two new books. One is a semi-autobiographical novel, called Lake Wobegon Summer 1956. The other is in collaboration with photographer Richard Olsenius: In Search of Lake Wobegon. It's an effort to capture in words and pictures the people and places that inspired the fictional town of Lake Wobegon. Keillor is the author of nine books and teaches at the University of Minnesota. (Original Broadcast Date: September 5, 2001)