We triple-dog-dare you to find a better depiction of the holidays. When “A Christmas Story” premiered in 1983, screenwriter Jean Shepherd pulled antidotes from his own life to create the Christmas ...

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 ...

"A Christmas Story" is a holiday classic, but it wasn't an instant hit upon its 1983 release. The film, which has some surprising cameos, inspired the sitcom "The Wonder Years." It almost starred Jack ...

With Christmas Eve fast approaching, many people will be turning on their TVs to be greeted by a less-than-merry Santa ...

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 ...

The legendary raconteur Jean Shepherd died 25 years ago this fall. His humorous stories were parables based on his fractured personal life and dismal view of men. I got to know Shepherd firsthand ...

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 ...

Jean Shepherd had a full and varied career. He wrote four books, most of them collections of short stories published in Playboy, which also chose him as the man to ask the questions when the Beatles ...

The general public thinks Jean Shepherd only wrote "A Christmas Story" and that was his most important work, but Shepherd also did other significant works besides "A Christmas Story." Jean wrote ...