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An American author, storyteller, humorist, columnist, musician, satirist, and radio personality, Keillor has made a career of telling stories about the fictional Minnesota town of Lake Wobegon: “Where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above-average.”

Call the UNCSA Box Office at 336-721-1945 or visit the Box Office at the Stevens Center, 405 West Fourth St., Winston-Salem. The Box Office is open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Garrison Keillor is the host and writer of “A Prairie Home Companion” and “The Writer's Almanac” heard on public radio stations across the country. Born in 1942 in Anoka, Minn., he 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. The show ended in 1987, resumed in 1989 in New York as “The American Radio Company,” returned to Minnesota, and in 1993 resumed the name “A Prairie Home Companion.” More than 4 million listeners on more than 590 public radio stations now hear the show each week.

Keillor 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); “Pontoon” (2007); “Liberty: A Lake Wobegon Novel” (2008); and “Life Among the Lutherans” (2009).

In 2006, Keillor played himself in Robert Altman’s movie adaptation of his show, A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION, which featured Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Woody Harrelson, John C. Reilly and Tommy Lee Jones.

Keillor has received numerous awards, including a Grammy for his recording of Lake Wobegon Days. He has also received two Cable ACE Awards and a George Foster Peabody Award. He received a Medal for Spoken Language from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1990, and a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1999. In 1994, he was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame at Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications.

This event is part of 6 Days in November which is presented by SunTrust Bank.