New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Needless to say, the Times didn't take kindly to having been fooled, and when they reviewed the book, they implied that Shepherd had misled his fans into asking for the book, when in fact the listeners were part of the hoax from the very beginning. I don't make the news, I just report it. Shepherd was a mainstay of the magazine in the 1960s and early '70s. Raised in Hammond, Indiana, Jean Shepherd went on to work in the steel mills and was a veteran of the Army Signal Corps before entering the arts. On April 7, 1981, he had received the city's second annual Hammond Achievement Award, which was given in the name of the citizenry. His articles were published in a series of books including "The America of George Ade", "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash", "Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories, and Other Disasters", "A Fistful of Fig Newtons" and "The Ferrari in the Bedroom".

The childhood friends included in many of his stories were people he claimed to have invented, yet high-school yearbooks and numerous other sources confirm that many of them, including school buddies "Flick" and "Schwartz", did indeed exist.The 1930 Federal Census Record for Hammond, Indiana, indicates that Jean's father did work for a dairy company. The award is presented to "

He is the on screen host and narrator for the made for video film, THE CHICAGO WHITE SOX: A VISUAL HISTORY (1987). Mr. Shepherd was a life long Chicago White Sox fan.

Railing against conformity, he forged a unique personal bond with his loyal listeners, who participated in his legendary literary prank by asking bookstores for the nonexistent novel Early in his career, Shepherd had a television program on WLW-TV in Cincinnati called In late 1960 and early 1961, he did a weekly television show on WOR (channel 9) in New York, but it did not last long.

Awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Indiana University in 1995. Was a licensed amateur (ham) radio operator with the call sign K2ORS.

Following his death, another ham took over Jean's call sign to honour his memory. AKA Jean Parker Shepherd, Jr. A Christmas Story. Gender:. Was named "Jazz Personality of the Year" for 1959 by "Metronome" Magazine. Shepherd won four "Playboy" Writing Awards for Humor/Satire, for "Leopold Doppler and the Orpheum Gravy Boat Riot" (October 1965), "The Return of the Smiling Wimpy Doll" (December 1967), and "Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories" (June 1969), all cited as First Place winners in their respective years (1965, '67 and '69), while "Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss" (July 1968) won a Second Place award in 1968. Subject of the song "Jean Shepherd" on the album "There Goes the Neighborhood" by Jim Testa. Randall had almost no contact with him after his parents' divorce.Shepherd's life and multimedia career are examined in the 2005 book Though he primarily spent his radio career playing music, New York Top-40 DJ An article he wrote for the March–April 1957 issue of In 2005, Shepherd was posthumously inducted into the Not to be confused with American country music singer After leaving Hammond, he obtained the call signs W4QWN (Kentucky), W8QWN (Ohio), and W3STE (Pennsylvania). A 12 minute segment of the David Letterman Show with Shep as a guest has surfaced on YouTube.

As his radio listeners included airline pilots who traveled overseas and press agents who fed information to leading gossip columnists in the city, The phony book and its phony author were soon a hot topic in transatlantic publishing circles, appearing on best-seller lists, getting mentioned in Earl Wilson's syndicated gossip column, and even getting Banned in Boston.

Raised in Hammond, Indiana, Jean Shepherd went on to work in the steel mills and was a veteran of the Army Signal Corps before entering the arts. "Jean Shepherd's Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss" received a nomination as Best Movie or Miniseries at the 10th annual ACE Awards.

According to this record, Jean Sr, Anna, Jean Jr, and Randall were all born in Illinois, and Jean Sr's parents (Emmett and Flora) were born in Kansas.

Shepherd's first known recording, the 1955 On some of his broadcasts, he played parts of recordings of such novelty songs as "Shepherd kept most of his personal life secret, from both his radio audience and most of his friends. His friend and WOR colleague Shepherd wrote a series of humorous short stories about growing up in northwest Indiana and its steel towns, many of which were first told by him on his programs and then published in This prismatic portrait affirms Shepherd's position as one of the 20th century's great humorists. Birthplace: Chicago, IL Location of death: Sanibel Island, FL Cause of death: unspecified. Married four times, he lived in several New York City locations during his WOR days and for a time in New Milford (Bergen County), New Jersey, and in Washington (Warren County), New Jersey.Shepherd maintained his interest in amateur radio throughout his life. Former WOR engineer, Frank Cernese, adds, "The commercials of that era were on 'ETs'—phonograph records about 14" in diameter.

He wrote for Playboy and other magazines. In the 1950s, he began a long career as a radio personality telling stories of his youth, commenting on current topics and performing silly songs. From 1951 to 1953, he had a late-night broadcast on KYW in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after which he returned to Cincinnati for several shows on WLW. After the publication in May 1973 of his short-story "Lost At C", only one more Shepherd story appeared in "Playboy", "A Fistful of Fig Newtons" in August 1981. Biography in: "American National Biography".

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