Garrison Keillor - Awards and Other Recognition

Awards and Other Recognition

• Keillor received a Medal for Spoken Language from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1990.
• In 1994, Keillor was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame.
• He received a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1999.
• "Welcome to Minnesota" markers in interstate rest areas near the state's borders include statements such as "Like its neighbors, the thirty-second state grew as a collection of small farm communities, many settled by immigrants from Scandinavia and Germany. Two of the nation's favorite fictional small towns -- Sinclair Lewis's Gopher Prairie and Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon -- reflect that heritage."
• In 2007, The Moth, a NYC-based not-for-profit storytelling organization, awarded Garrison Keillor the first The Moth Award - Honoring the Art of the Raconteur at the annual Moth Ball.
• In September 2007, Keillor was awarded the 2007 John Steinbeck Award, given to artists who capture "the spirit of Steinbeck's empathy, commitment to democratic values, and belief in the dignity of the common man."
• Keillor received a Grammy Award in 1988 for his recording of Lake Wobegon Days.
• He has also received two CableACE Awards and a George Foster Peabody Award.