Although Garrison Keillor is perhaps best known as the creator and host of Minnesota Public Radio's A Prairie Home Companion (1974-1987), the focus of this study is his literary career. Keillor's literary accomplishments include a successful career as a writer for The New Yorker and two best-selling books about the fictional town of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, entitled Lake Wobegon Days (1985) and Leaving Home (1987). His literary style incorporates elements from several traditions in American literature--the precise, sophisticated "New Yorker style" practiced by writers such as E. B. White and James Thurber; the oral tradition prominent in the works of Mark Twain and the nineteenth-century literary comedians; and the satiric realism associated with the small-town literature of writers such as Sherwood Anderson and Sinclair Lewis.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc500338 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Elston, Suzanne Poteet |
| Contributors | Kesterson, David B., 1938-, Tanner, James T. F., Smith, John T. |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | iii, 105 leaves, Text |
| Rights | Public, Elston, Suzanne Poteet, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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