Editing Garrison Keillor (section)

==Early life and education==
[[File:GarrisonKeillor.JPG|thumb|right|upright|Keillor in 2010, wearing his signature red shoes]]
Keillor was born in [[Anoka, Minnesota]], the son of Grace Ruth (''née'' Denham) and John Philip Keillor. His father was a carpenter and postal worker<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wadler |first=Joyce |date=June 7, 2006 |title=Where all the rooms are above average / Garrison Keillor's home not a little house on the prairie |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/07/HOG8GJ8NBR1.DTL |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414130150/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2006%2F06%2F07%2FHOG8GJ8NBR1.DTL |archive-date=April 14, 2012 |work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |publisher=[[Hearst Corporation]] |location=San Francisco, California |df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Landsend.com |url=http://www.landsend.com/cd/fp/help/0,,1_36877_36882_37199_,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403023558/http://www.landsend.com/cd/fp/help/0%2C%2C1_36877_36882_37199_%2C00.html |archive-date=April 3, 2012 |access-date=February 5, 2021}}</ref> of [[English people|English]] ancestry; Keillor's paternal grandfather was from [[Kingston, Ontario]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=1996-02-26 |title=Garrison Keillor sounds at home on CBC Radio |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/19169102.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+26%2C+1996&author=By+Peter+Goddard+Toronto+Star&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Garrison+Keillor+sounds+at+home+on+CBC+Radio&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130216163534/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/19169102.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+26,+1996&author=By+Peter+Goddard+Toronto+Star&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Garrison+Keillor+sounds+at+home+on+CBC+Radio&pqatl=google |archive-date=February 16, 2013 |access-date=2015-03-04 |publisher=Pqasb.pqarchiver.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ancestry of Garrison Keillor |url=http://www.wargs.com/other/keillor.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150308163850/http://www.wargs.com/other/keillor.html |archive-date=March 8, 2015 |access-date=2015-03-04 |publisher=Wargs.com |df=mdy-all}}</ref> His maternal grandparents were [[Scottish people|Scottish]] emigrants from [[Glasgow]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Paterson |first=Mike |title=Emigrants, Expatriates, Descendants and Clans |url=http://www.irss.uoguelph.ca/article/download/176/218 |journal=International Review of Scottish Studies |publication-date=2003 |volume=28 |pages=59–87 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109201408/http://www.irss.uoguelph.ca/article/download/176/218 |archive-date=2013-11-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-07-27 |title=Grace Keillor, mother of Garrison, passes away at age 97 |url=http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/state-of-the-arts/archive/2012/07/grace-keillor-mother-of-garrison-passes-away-at-age-97.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018220007/http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/state-of-the-arts/archive/2012/07/grace-keillor-mother-of-garrison-passes-away-at-age-97.shtml |archive-date=October 18, 2012 |access-date=2015-03-04 |department=State of the Arts |publisher=Minnesota Public Radio}}</ref> He was the third of six children, with three brothers and two sisters.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Buckley |first=Cara |date=2016-06-16 |title=The Garrison Keillor You Never Knew |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/arts/the-garrison-keillor-you-never-knew.html |access-date=2022-02-12 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Keillor's family belonged to the [[Plymouth Brethren]], an [[Evangelicalism|Evangelical Christian]] movement that he has since left. In 2006, he told ''[[Christianity Today]]'' that he was attending the St. John the Evangelist [[Episcopal Church in the United States of America|Episcopal]] church in [[Saint Paul, Minnesota]], after previously attending a [[Lutheran]] church in New York.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2006-06-05 |title=From the Radio to the Big Screen |url=http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/movies/interviews/2006/garrisonkiellor.html?start=2 |access-date=2015-03-04 |magazine=Christianity Today}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Press Room |url=http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/about/press |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140713173959/http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/about/press/ |archive-date=July 13, 2014 |website=Prairiehome.publicradio.org |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Keillor graduated from [[Anoka High School]] in 1960 and from the [[University of Minnesota]] with a [[bachelor's degree]] in English in 1966.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Keillor |first=Garrison |date=April 15, 2010 |title=Post to the Host: 7th Grade Report |url=http://www.publicradio.org/columns/prairiehome/posthost/2010/04/15/some_facts.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100921042203/http://www.publicradio.org/columns/prairiehome/posthost/2010/04/15/some_facts.php |archive-date=September 21, 2010 |access-date=2010-09-05 |website=A Prairie Home Companion |df=mdy-all}}</ref> During college, he began his broadcasting career on the student-operated radio station known today as [[Radio K]].

In his 2004 book ''Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America'', Keillor mentions some of his noteworthy ancestors, including [[John Crandall]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Keillor |first=Garrison |url=https://archive.org/details/homegrowndemocra00keil_0/page/39 |title=Homegrown Democrat |publisher=Penguin Books |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-14-303768-2 |location=New York |pages=39–40, 84}}</ref> who was an associate of [[Roger Williams]], who founded [[Rhode Island]] and the first American [[Baptist]] church; and [[Prudence Crandall]], who founded the first African-American women's school in America.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Keillor |first=Garrison |url=https://archive.org/details/homegrowndemocra00keil_0/page/84 |title=Homegrown Democrat |publisher=Penguin Books |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-14-303768-2 |location=New York |page=84}}</ref>