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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