It's based on the semi-autobiographical short stories of radio personality Jean Shepherd. Many of the characters featured in A Christmas Story were inspired by real-life people and events from ...

Sixty years ago, Jean Shepherd — a popular commentator on WOR radio — hopped on a busload of everyday citizens bound for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. When he disembarked at the ...

Jean Shepherd is known to moviegoers as the author and narrator of ‘‘A Christmas Story,'' a frequently shown holiday film about a boy who wants and finally gets a Ryder BB gun for Christmas. But his ...

Jean Parker Shepherd was a prolific author and radio and television personality whose storytelling has been compared to that of Mark Twain. Shepherd, a Hammond native, was best known for his radio ...

Best known as the writer and narrator of the holiday film classic A Christmas Story, Jean Shepherd (1921-1999) was a celebrated American author, humorist, radio, TV, and film personality, originally ...