![]() ![]() Eventually, Silverstein recorded Shepherd's stories on tape, transcribed them, and then together with Shepherd edited and developed them. Īccording to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, author Shel Silverstein had long encouraged Shepherd to write down his radio stories, but Shepherd was reluctant to do so because he was not a writer. He focused primarily on those stories which depicted his childhood in the fictional town of Hohman, Indiana (a stand-in for Shepherd's home town of Hammond, Indiana). Beginning in June 1964, he began adapting many of his radio stories for publication in Playboy magazine. Jean Shepherd was a well-known American humorist who performed on radio in the decades after World War II. The work inspired several films in the Parker Family Saga, including A Christmas Story (1983) and My Summer Story (1994). ![]() In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash is a novel by American humorist Jean Shepherd first published in October 1966.Ī best-seller at the time of its publication, it is considered Shepherd's most important published work. ![]()
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