I wonder if that’s the same Jean Shepherd who wrote “A Christmas Story”
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Yes, it is. I didn’t know who Shepherd was until I had seen the movie a couple of times and noticed the name on the credits and decided to look up who “she” was.
There was a female country singer named Jean Shepard (last name spelled differently). They are often confused.
The boy’s name in the movie A Christmas
Story was Ralph Parker...surname
taken from “Shep”’s middle name—
Jean Parker Shepherd