A Fistful of Fig Newtons Author:Jean Shepherd A Fistful of Fig Newtons is classic Jean Shepherd - sidesplittingly funny and sardonically irreverent. Here are Shepherd's wild and wacky adventures, a dozen truer-than-life tales of college life on the G.I. Bill, of "Kidhood" in Hammond, Indiana, of tailgating on the Jersey Turnpike, and of other familiar defeats and humiliations.