Editing Garrison Keillor (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:APHC2014GK.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Keillor in 2014]]
Keillor is a member of the [[Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party|Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Powers |first=John |date=August 10, 2008 |title=Plenty of niceness, and no ice, for a Grand Old Party |url=http://www.boston.com/travel/getaways/us/articles/2008/08/10/plenty_of_niceness_and_no_ice_for_a_grand_old_party/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102205301/http://www.boston.com/travel/getaways/us/articles/2008/08/10/plenty_of_niceness_and_no_ice_for_a_grand_old_party/ |archive-date=November 2, 2012 |work=The Boston Globe |df=mdy-all}}</ref> He is {{Convert|6|ft|3|in|cm|abbr=on}} tall.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Salon |url=http://www.salon.com/books/col/keil/1999/05/25/sex_ex/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110424094857/http://www.salon.com/books/col/keil/1999/05/25/sex_ex/index.html |archive-date=April 24, 2011 |access-date=February 5, 2021}}</ref> He considers himself a [[loner]] and prefers not to make eye contact with people. Though not formally diagnosed, he also considers himself to be on the high-functioning end of the [[autism spectrum]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 26, 2016 |title=Garrison Keillor signs off |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/garrison-keillor-signs-off/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160627142156/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/garrison-keillor-signs-off/ |archive-date=June 27, 2016 |website=[[CBS News]] |df=mdy-all}}</ref> He spoke about his experiences as an autistic person in his keynote address at the 19th Annual Minnesota Autism Conference in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Thomalla |first=Kelly |title=Garrison Keillor opens 19th Annual MN Autism Conference |url=https://ausm.org/676-garrison-keillor-opens-19th-annual-minnesota-autism-conference.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160803063415/https://ausm.org/676-garrison-keillor-opens-19th-annual-minnesota-autism-conference.html |archive-date=August 3, 2016 |website=ausm.org |df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=19th Annual Minnesota Autism Conference: Garrison Keillor Unforgettable |url=http://blog.heidischauer.com/19th-annual-minnesota-autism-conference-garrison-keillor-unforgettable/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160623184242/http://blog.heidischauer.com/19th-annual-minnesota-autism-conference-garrison-keillor-unforgettable/ |archive-date=June 23, 2016 |website=blog.heidischauer.com |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Keillor has been married three times.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Garrison Keillor and Jenny Lind Nilsson - Marriage Profile |url=http://marriage.about.com/od/entertainmen1/p/keillornilsson.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402112546/http://marriage.about.com/od/entertainmen1/p/keillornilsson.htm |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |access-date=2015-03-04 |publisher=Marriage.about.com |df=mdy-all}}</ref> He was married to Mary Guntzel from 1965 to 1976; they had one son. From 1985 to 1990 he was married to Ulla Skaerved, a former [[exchange student]] from Denmark at Keillor's high school whom he re-encountered at a class reunion.<ref>{{Cite web |date=February 12, 1986 |title=Garrison Keillor What He Did For Love |url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-02-12/entertainment/8601110465_1_margaret-moos-ulla-skaerved-anoka-high-school |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160623165233/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-02-12/entertainment/8601110465_1_margaret-moos-ulla-skaerved-anoka-high-school |archive-date=June 23, 2016 |website=[[Chicago Tribune]] |df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="NYT">{{Cite web |last=Wadler, Joyce |date=June 1, 2006 |title=Where All the Rooms Are Above Average |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/01/garden/01keillor.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201020241/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/01/garden/01keillor.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 |archive-date=December 1, 2017 |website=[[The New York Times]] |df=mdy-all}}</ref> In 1995, Keillor married classical string player Jenny Lind Nilsson (born 1957), who is also from Keillor's home town of [[Anoka, Minnesota]].<ref name=NYT/> They have one daughter.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 2, 1998 |title=A Prairie Home Companion from American Public Media |url=http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/features/hodgepodge/19980102_baby/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100704183943/http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/features/hodgepodge/19980102_baby/ |archive-date=July 4, 2010 |access-date=December 24, 2010 |publisher=American Public Media |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Between his first and second marriages, Keillor was romantically involved with Margaret Moos, who worked as a producer of ''A Prairie Home Companion''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Garrison Keillor |url=http://www.johnrosengren.net/garrison-keillor |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150313055253/http://www.johnrosengren.net/garrison-keillor |archive-date=March 13, 2015 |access-date=2015-03-04 |publisher=John Rosengren |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

On September 7, 2009, Keillor was briefly hospitalized after suffering a minor [[stroke]]. He returned to work a few days later.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Walsh |first=Paul |date=September 9, 2009 |title=Minor stroke puts Keillor in hospital |url=http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/style/58076947.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUs |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607070138/http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/style/58076947.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O%3ADW3ckUiD3aPc%3A_Yyc%3AaUUs |archive-date=June 7, 2011 |access-date=September 9, 2009 |work=[[Star Tribune]] |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

In 2006, after a visit to a [[United Methodist Church|United Methodist church]] in [[Highland Park, Texas]], Keillor created a local controversy with his remarks about the event,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Russell |first=Robin |orig-date=2006-10-10 |title=Garrison Keillor disses UMs after Dallas lecture |url=http://www.umportal.org/main/article.asp?id=1252 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229215707/http://www.umportal.org/main/article.asp?id=1252 |archive-date=2012-02-29 |department=Editor's Corner |publisher=The United Methodist Portal}}</ref> including the rhetorical suggestion of a connection between event participants and supporters of torture and a statement creating an impression of political intimidation: "I walked in, was met by two burly security men ... and within 10 minutes was told by three people that this was the Bushes' church and that it would be better if I didn't talk about politics." In response, the lecture series coordinator said the two "burly security men" were a local policeman and the church's own security supervisor, both present because the agreement with Keillor's publisher specified that the venue provide security. In addition, the coordinator said that Keillor arrived at the church, declined an introduction, and took the stage without an opportunity to mingle with the audience, so he did not know when these warnings might have been dispensed. The publicist concurred, saying that Keillor did not have contact with any church members or people in the audience before he spoke.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Floyd |first=Jacquielynn |date=October 4, 2006 |title=Keillor's Dallas jabs read like fictional tale |url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/localnews/columnists/jfloyd/stories/100506dnmetfloyd.71c17bc.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061011150018/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/localnews/columnists/jfloyd/stories/100506dnmetfloyd.71c17bc.html |archive-date=October 11, 2006 |work=[[The Dallas Morning News]] |publisher=[[A.H. Belo Corporation]] |location=Dallas, Texas}}</ref>

Supposedly, before Keillor's remarks, participants at the event had considered the visit cordial and warm. Asked to respond, Keillor stuck to his story, describing the people who advised him not to discuss politics and saying he had no security guards at other stops on the tour.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wilonsky |first=Robert |date=October 4, 2006 |title=And He Sounds Like Such a Nice Boy on the Radio ... |url=http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/and-he-sounds-like-such-a-nice-boy-on-the-radio-7121351 |access-date=May 13, 2018 |work=[[Dallas Observer]] |publisher=[[Voice Media Group]] |location=Dallas, Texas}}</ref>

In 2007, Keillor wrote a column that in part criticized "stereotypical" gay parents, who he said were "sardonic fellows with fussy hair who live in over-decorated apartments with a striped sofa and a small weird dog and who worship campy performers."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Keillor |first=Garrison |author-link=Garrison Keillor |date=March 14, 2007 |title=Stating the obvious |url=https://www.salon.com/2007/03/14/keillor_81/ |access-date=May 13, 2018 |work=[[Salon.com]] |publisher=Salon Media Group Inc. |location=San Francisco, California}}</ref> In response to the strong reactions of many readers, Keillor said:

{{Blockquote|I live in a small world – the world of entertainment, musicians, writers – in which gayness is as common as having brown eyes ... And in that small world, we talk openly and we kid each other a lot. But in the larger world, gayness is controversial ... and so gay people feel besieged to some degree and rightly so ... My column spoke as we would speak in my small world, and it was read by people in the larger world and thus the misunderstanding. And for that, I am sorry. Gay people who set out to be parents can be just as good parents as anybody else, and they know that, and so do I.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Keillor |first=Garrison |author-link=Garrison Keillor |date=March 21, 2007 |title=To the worker ants of science |url=http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/03/21/keillor/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080629050026/http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/03/21/keillor/index.html |archive-date=June 29, 2008 |access-date=March 4, 2015 |website=[[Salon.com]] |publisher=Salon Media Group Inc. |location=San Francisco, California}}</ref>}}

In 2008, Keillor created a controversy in St. Paul when he filed a lawsuit against his neighbor's plan to build an addition on her home, citing his need for "light and air" and a view of "open space and beyond". Keillor's home is significantly larger than others in his neighborhood and it would still be significantly larger than his neighbor's with its planned addition.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nizza |first=Mike |date=February 26, 2015 |title=Garrison Keillor Leaves Home for Greener Prairies |url=https://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/garrison-keillor-leaves-home-for-greener-prairies/ |access-date=March 4, 2015 |website=[[The New York Times]] |location=New York City}}</ref> Keillor came to an undisclosed settlement with his neighbor shortly after the story became public.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lonetree |first=Anthony |date=January 23, 2008 |title=Mediation ends Keillor's feud with neighbor |url=http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/13973526.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402190613/http://www.startribune.com/local/stpaul/13973526.html |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |access-date=March 4, 2015 |website=[[Star Tribune]] |publisher=Star Tribune Media Company LLC |location=Minneapolis, Minnesota |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

In 2009, one of Keillor's "Old Scout" columns contained a reference to "lousy holiday songs by Jewish guys" and a complaint about "[[Silent Night]]" as rewritten by [[Unitarian Universalism|Unitarian]]s, upsetting some readers.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Keillor |first=Garrison |author-link=Garrison Keillor |date=December 16, 2009 |title=Garrison Keillor Christmas &#124; Nonbelievers, please leave Christmas alone |url=http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2009-12-16/news/bal-op.keillor16dec16_1_silent-night-unitarian-christmas |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150320191950/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2009-12-16/news/bal-op.keillor16dec16_1_silent-night-unitarian-christmas |archive-date=March 20, 2015 |access-date=March 4, 2015 |website=[[The Baltimore Sun]] |publisher=[[Tronc]] |df=mdy-all}}</ref> A Unitarian minister named Cynthia Landrum responded, "Listening to him talk about us over the years, it's becoming more and more evident that he isn't laughing with us—he's laughing at us",<ref>{{Cite web |last=Landrum |first=Cynthia |date=December 17, 2009 |title=Rev. Cyn: Garrison Keillor Is no "Companion" for Unitarian Universalists |url=http://revcyn.blogspot.com/2009/12/garrison-keillor-is-no-companion-for.html?m=0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141227064115/http://revcyn.blogspot.com/2009/12/garrison-keillor-is-no-companion-for.html?m=0 |archive-date=December 27, 2014 |access-date=March 4, 2015 |publisher=Revcyn.blogspot.com |df=mdy-all}}</ref> while Jeff Jacoby of ''[[The Boston Globe]]'' called Keillor "cranky and intolerant".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jacoby |first=Jeff |date=December 27, 2009 |title=Musings, random and otherwise |url=http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/12/27/musings_random_and_otherwise/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221151351/http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/12/27/musings_random_and_otherwise/ |archive-date=December 21, 2014 |access-date=March 4, 2015 |work=[[The Boston Globe]] |publisher=Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC |location=Boston, Massachusetts |df=mdy-all}}</ref>