The limerick is the perfect form for Garrison Keillor's wit and erudition More than just a collection of limericks--organized around Keillor's own life story Keillor will be touring at publication in May and throughout the year Clever line drawings will be included throughout the book Keillor is internationally recognized as a leading voice in American culture; he is the host of the radio show The Writer's Almanac (which has online and daily email component, http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org) and creator of A Prairie Home Companion , which he hosted until 2016. He wrote the screenplay for the film A Prairie Home Companion , directed by Robert Altman. Keillor received a Grammy Award in 1988 for his recording of his novel Lake Wobegon Days , a medal for Spoken Language from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1990; was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1994; received a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1999, and the John Steinbeck Award in 2007. Keillor has published more than ten volumes of fiction (a series of books set in Lake Wobegon), a book of political essays, and has edited 4 anthologies of poetry. His first collection of poems, O, What a Luxury , received a great deal of attention from public radio, and from local media in the cities of A Prairie Home Companion tour. He has contributed to newspapers and magazines including the New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly .