Photo: #In 1981, Garrison Keillor brought his radio program, "A Prairie Home Companion," to the World. A best-selling American author, Keillor led the charge to rename the theater in honor of St. Paul native and beloved American author, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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In 1981, Garrison Keillor brought his radio program, "A Prairie Home Companion," to the World. A best-selling American author, Keillor led the charge to rename the theater in honor of St. Paul native and beloved American author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. (MPR Photo)

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Garrison Keillor on libraries, writing, and radio

Broadcast: Midday, 05/11/2011, 12:00 p.m.

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Author and "A Prairie Home Companion" host Garrison Keillor speaks at the Friends of the University of Minnesota Libraries Dinner about writing, performing, and how libraries are a refuge from the outside world.

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