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Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories
and Other Disasters

Publisher:

Doubleday

September 1, 1971

Library of Congress #:

72-161317

ISBN #:

0-385-11632-2

Notes:

*	This book is a compilation of short stories which first appeared in Playboy Magazine
*	The paper back version of this book was first published on January 10, 1974 according to Shep on his show of the same date. (Thanks to Barry Benowitz)

Chapters

1	The Grandstand Passion Play of Delbert and the Bumpus Hounds	Apr 1969
2	County Fair! (Based on 1969 Flemington Fair - 12-31-71 Interview)	Sep 1969
3	Scut Farkas and the Murderous Mariah
4	Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss	July 1968
5	The Star-crossed Romance of Josephene Cosnowski	Dec 1970
6	Daphne Bigelow and the Spine-chilling Saga of the Sail-encrusted Tinfoil Noose	Nov 1966
7	The Return of the Smiling Wimpy Doll	Dec 1967
8	Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories (Prom is based on 1969 Bloomfield NJ senior prom. - 12-30-71 Interview)	June 1969

Printings

1971 Hard Cover

Book Signings

Shep at the Garden State Plaza Book Signing
courtesy of John Wetzel

Here's an interesting story from Ed Suhaka who made the papers back home while stationed in Korea.

What makes the tale of this clipping more interesting is that I have one of the books signed by Shep at that signing. It was sent to me by my mother as a gift. I was in the Army then, stationed in Korea at Camp Humphreys . Also, I was (and still am), a ham radio operator. My call sign then was WB2KXT. One sentence in the story reads "He obliged a fellow ham radio operator by signing his call letters K2ORS".

She also wrote: " I asked Shep if he had any tapes of his radio program for sale. Shep said no. Why, he asked. I told him a G.I. in Korea had taped Shep and the tapes are getting worn out from playing them over & over. His face lit up as he turned to his agents and said "Hey, there's a guy who taped my radio shows", and with that he signed his call letters."

The inscription in the book reads "To Ed WB2KXT get home soon!! DE Jean Shepherd K2ORS 73". (To a ham sending in code DE means "from" and 73 means "best regards").