Garrison Keillor
A Voice of America
Garrison Keillor: A Voice of America explores the comic imagination that put Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, on the map along with Hannibal, Missouri, and Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.
This first full-length analysis of Keillor’s humor draws on manuscripts and audiotapes in the archives at Minnesota Public Radio, as well as upon the wealth of poetry and prose published by Keillor since his student days at the University of Minnesota.
In addition to tracing the evolution of Keillor’s Lake Wobegon monologue, this enjoyable book examines the themes and comic techniques of Keillor’s songs, poems, dramas, commercials, and audience-participation events that shine among the brightest highlights of his radio shows.
Judith Yaross Lee is a professor and director of honors tutorials in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University. She is author of Twain’s Brand: Humor in Contemporary American Culture and Defining "New Yorker" Humor, both published by University Press of Mississippi.
