Things I didn't know about Garrison Keillor

For one thing, his real name is Gary.
 
And this from Newsweek magazine:

This is the first time Keillor has been accused of sexual misconduct, though his romantic habits have previously gotten him in hot water. The creator of the radio program A Prairie Home Companion, which aired from 1974 until Keillor retired in 2016, has been married three times. Throughout his life, his romantic entanglements have been the subject of public controversy, especially because he reportedly had a habit of beginning new relationships before ending the one he's in.

Keillor has been married to Minnesota Opera violinist Jenny Lind Nilsson since 1995, and the two wrote a young adult novel together in 1996. The novel, The Sandy Bottom Orchestra, follows a teenage musician named Rachel as she navigates high school. Their daughter, Maia, Keillor's second child, graduated from high school in 2016. In 2015, the local Minnesota press reported that Nilsson and Keillor were considering moving out of the state to live full time in their Manhattan apartment.

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Before Nilsson, Keillor was married to Ulla Skaerved, a Danish woman whom he initially met as a teenager when she attended Anoka High School in Minnesota with him as a foreign exchange student. After becoming reacquainted at a reunion, Keillor and Skaerved were married in 1985. Keillor filed for divorce in 1991.

Many Prairie Home Companion listeners reported being disgusted by Keillor's account of wooing Skaerved. At the time, Keillor and Margaret Moos, a producer on Prairie Home Companion, had lived with each other and dated for years. Fans of the show felt protective of Moos.

One listener told The New York Times, "In Minnesota, it was like 'gag me.' Here he's just bailed out on this woman who'd helped make him famous, then he had the bad taste to coo over this new love on the air." As The Times described it in 2002, "He spoke beautifully of [Skaerved] on the radio, but his Minnesota public, loyal to [Margaret Moos], was not entranced."

In fact, the backlash was so swift that Keillor shut down his radio show "in a huff" and moved to Denmark with Skaerved. When he returned to U.S. in 1989, he launched a new radio show, The American Radio Company.

After divorcing Skaerved in 1991, Keillor returned to Minnesota and reportedly tried to "mend fences" with the audience that had once rejected him. In 1993, the Star Tribune published a scathing open letter from ex-wife Skaerved. "A celebrity like yourself keeps building on the illusion that he is still married to the Dane he married some years ago," she wrote. "The truth is that the marriage ended two years ago, when you moved in with another woman." Presumably, Skaerved was referring to Jenny Lind Nilsson.