
Major Awards Over the years Shep received many awards, nominations and tributes for his work

Awards

	Date	Event
	1959	Jazz Personality of the Year Metronome Magazine
	January 30, 1965	United State Marine Corps Reserve Certificate of Appreciation
	October 1965	Playboy's Annual Writing Awards Humor Satire Award
	1966	Indiana University Most original fiction award
	May 7, 1967	Indiana University Outstanding Hoosier Author award
	December 1967	Playboy's Annual Writing Awards Humor Satire Award
	July 1968	Playboy's Annual Writing Awards Humor Satire Award - 2nd Place
	June 1969	Playboy's Annual Writing Awards Humor Satire Award - 2nd Place
	April 8, 1972	Nominated for 2 Emmy Awards
	1976	INTERNATIONAL PLATFORM ASSOCIATION AWARDS Mark Twain Humor Award
	April 7, 1981	2nd Annual Hammond Achievement Award
	May 1, 1982	Citation from New Jersey Institute of Technology writers conference
	1983	Writers Guild of America Nomination
	March 21, 1984	5th Genie Awards Toronto, Canada
	May 11, 1986	Doctor of Letters New England College
	May 15, 1995	Received Doctorate of Humane Letters from Indiana University
	November 13, 2000	Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame
	January 2001	CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame Inaugural Class
	November 22, 2013	Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia's "Hall of Fame" Induction

Tributes

	Date	Event
	October 17, 1999	"All Things Considered" 8 minute tribute (NPR)
	October 24, 1999	WBAI Tribute to Jean Shepherd by Max Schmid
	October 27, 1999	WOR Tribute to Jean Shepherd
	December 24, 1999	"A Voice in the Night" 2 hour tribute by KCRW on NPR produced by Harry Shearer and Art Silverman
	January 27, 2000	"A Salute to Jean Shepherd" www.flicklives.com established
	October 19, 2000	25th FOTR Convention - Max Schmid with Barry Farber and Herb Squire
	February 23, 2001	Max Schmid's 5 hour tribute to Shep on WBAI 99.5FM New York - Winter Pledge Drive
	May 27, 2001	Max Schmid's 5 hour tribute to Shep on WBAI 99.5FM New York - Spring Pledge Drive
	March 15, 2003	Jean Shepherd Community Center Hammond Indiana
	December 21, 2003	Tribute to Shep - 21st Century Radio
	October 20, 2005	30th FOTR Convention - Max Schmid with Eugene Bergmann
	November 5, 2005	Shep is inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame
	2007	South Shore Wall of Legends
	January 23, 2012	The Paley Center for Media Remembering Master Storyteller, Jean Shepherd

Nominations

	Date	Event
	April 11, 1977	Television Critics Circle Award
	March 21, 1984	5th Genie Awards Toronto, Canada
	January 15, 1989	Cable ACE Awards

Miscellaneous

Trivia
	In his January 28, 1966 article in the Drexal Triangle, Drexal University, Mike Wadler credits Shep for inventing the game of Trivia. Supposedly born at Columbia University in 1965, Mike says Shep was playing the game on the radio long before that. Shep had a plaque in his office for a "Functional Trivia Award" presented by Phi Epsilon Pi New York Council in 1961. (What University?)
Dictionary of American Slang
	In his early years of radio on WOR in New York, during his late night broadcasts, Shep referred to his listeners as "Night People" often explaining how they differed from "Day People". The phrase caught on an credit for the phrase was given in the Dictionary of American Slang.
Dictionary of Midwestern Literature: Volume One
	A short biography of Shepherd

"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975