Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden MemoriesBy: Jean Shepherd A bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana and the basis of the movie A Christmas Story. Mr. Shepherd has the true satirists grip on his pen: he is humorous, sympathetic,and ironic all at once.Boston Globe Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all American childhood into immensely resonantand utterly hilariousworks of comic art.