Shel Silverstein, who many of us know for "Where the Sidewalk Ends", wrote Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue"
From Playboy cartoonist to children's book author (A Light in the Attic, Where the Sidewalk Ends) to hit songwriter, Shel Silverstein covered a lot of creative ground throughout his life. But he (along with Johnny Cash) reportedly owes one of his biggest successes to the man who created A Christmas Story, the 1983 film based on the stories of author Jean Shepherd. Silverstein and Shepherd were longtime friends, with the former dedicating his Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book, a 1961 collection of irreverent adult humor and drawings to Shepherd, who frequently lamented that growing up with a woman's name was difficult. Shepherd, in the foreword to one of Silverstein's books called the Chicago native "the only continuously funny man I have ever known."
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