There are a whole lot of statements that our Guest has made that have convinced me that he/she doesn't have the facts straight. So just for the record some things I did find.

Garrison Keillor was born in Anoka, Mn in 1942, graduated High School 1960. Married 1965. Son Jason born @1970. This marriage ended in divorce sometime before 1985.

Anoka county has some areas that have long been part of 'suburban' Minneapolis. Specifically Fridley & Columbia Heights. Given no interstates & the distance to Anoka, it would be a stretch to consider Anoka itself a suburb during the 1950-1960 period. Keillor's grandfather farmed in Anoka. In 1950 the population was 7396, in 1960, 10,562. The town was growing quickly as Minneapolis spread, but since his family was from the town, I suspect it still thought in terms of small town.

In 1985 he met Ulla Skaerved, a former exchange student, at their 25th High School reunion. He was living with his producer Margaret Moos at the time. Current Biography covered him in 1985 & stated that he was living with Moos and his son from the previous marriage. It would appear that his new wife moved in with Keillor & son. She had 3 children.

Keillor left Minnesota for Denmark in 1987. By then his son would have been almost done with High School. A child who, perhaps, chooses to stay & finish the last 2 years of school instead of moving to a foreign country has hardly been abandoned. He later worked (does he still?) for the show. Insert criticism for nepotism here.

Keillor obviously went through a few years of instability when his Danish family could not be happy in Minnesota & he was miserable in Denmark. He quickly moved to New York (a compromise?) He has since relocated back to Minnesota.

Don't know when that marriage dissolved maybe midlife passion is not all it looked to be. In 1998 he had his second child with his 3rd wife, violinist Jenny Lind Nilsson.