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 ...

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 ...