Lake Wobegon is a fictional town created by Garrison Keillor as the setting of the recurring segment "News from Lake Wobegon" for the radio program A Prairie Home Companion broadcast from St Paul, Minnesota. The fictional town serves as the setting for many of Keillor's stories and novels, gaining an international audience with Lake Wobegon Days in 1985. Described as a small rural town in central Minnesota, the events and adventures of the townspeople provided Keillor with a wealth of humorous and often touching stories.[1][2]
Keillor has said that people often ask him if it is a real town, and when he replied that it was not, they seemed disappointed because "people want stories to be true". So he began to say it was in "central Minnesota, near Stearns County, up around Holdingford, not far from St. Rosa and Albany and Freeport, northwest of St. Cloud", which he says is "sort of the truth, I guess".[3]
- ^ Wolf, Mark. Building Imaginary Worlds: The Theory and History of Subcreation. Routledge, 2014. ISBN 9781136220814. page 259.
- ^ Dregni, Eric. Moran, Mark. Sceurman, Mark. Weird Minnesota: Your Travel Guide to Minnesota's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets. Sterling; Reprint edition (May 1, 2012). ISBN 978-1402788260. page 44, 60 & 226
- ^ Keillor, Garrison. “In Search of Lake Wobegon”. National Geographic Magazine. December 2000.
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