With the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi River in the 1950s and turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of lucky breaks, he founded the radio show A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty-two years, 1,557 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased each week for three or four million listeners. Book jacket.