![]() ![]() In 2006 he told Christianity Today that he was attending the Episcopal church in Saint Paul, after previously attending a Lutheran church in New York. Keillor is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. He is six feet, three inches (1.9 m) tall. The family belonged to the Plymouth Brethren, a fundamentalist Christian denomination Keillor has since left. ![]() His maternal grandparents were Scottish immigrants, from Glasgow. His father had English ancestry, partly by way of Canada (Keillor's paternal grandfather was from Kingston, Ontario). Keillor was born in Anoka, Minnesota, the son of Grace Ruth (née Denham) and John Philip Keillor, who was a carpenter and postal worker. He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show "A Prairie Home Companion". Garrison Keillor (born Gary Edward Keillor on Augin Anoka, Minnesota) is an American author, storyteller, humorist, columnist, musician, satirist, and radio personality. ![]() Twain will forgive me." -Garrison Keillor "This is an abridgement of Mark Twain's book, keeping the parts I loved as a boy-Huck's story, the big river at night, the boasting of the raftsmen, the Duke and the Dauphin, the lynching, the feud-and lopping off the last third of the book, where Tom Sawyer comes in and makes a big production of freeing Jim. Garrison Keillor approaches it with the respect and affection it deserves. Huckleberry Finn was Twain's greatest creation. By the end of the story, Huck has learned about the dignity and worth of human life-and Twain has exposed the moral blindness of the "respectable" slave-holding society in which he lives. As they encounter traveling actors, con men, lynch mobs, thieves, and Southern gentility, his shrewd comments reveal the dark side of human nature. ![]() As the two journey downstream on a raft, Huck's vivid descriptions capture the sights, smells, sounds, and rhythms of life on the great river. Narrated by Huck himself in his artless vernacular, it tells of his voyage down the Mississippi with a runaway slave named Jim. First published in 1884, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a masterpiece of world literature. ![]()
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