Jean Shepherd, the prolific Indiana-born radio raconteur and humorist whose easy storytelling style earned comparisons to fel¬low Midwesterner Mark Twain, has died at 78.
Mr. Shepherd, once described 1)y media critic Marshall McLullan as "the first radio novelist," died Saturday in a hospital near his home on Sanibel Island, Fla., said his longtime friend and business adviser, Irwin Zwilling....
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