Private Parts (ISBN 0671880160) is the autobiography of radio personality and shock jock, Howard Stern. It was published in 1993 by Simon & Schuster and became the fastest-selling book in the company's history. It was adapted into a film in 1997 starring Stern as himself. An autobiography, from the Greek auton, self, bios, life and graphein, write, is a biography written by the subject or composed conjointly with a collaborative writer (styled as told to or with). The term dates from the late eighteenth century, but the form is much older. ... a Radio Personality is the modern incarnation of the disk jockey, or DJ. In the 1990s, successful radio stations began to focus less on the musical expertise of their hosts and more on the individual hosts personalities. ... A shock jock is a slang term used to describe a type of radio broadcaster (sometimes a disk jockey) who attracts attention using humor that a significant portion of the listening audience may find offensive. ... Howard Allen Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio and TV personality, media mogul, humorist and author. ... Jean-François Millet Le Semeur (The Sower) Simon & Schuster logo, circa 1961. ... Private Parts, a 1997 movie about Howard Stern. ...

It is number 87 on the ALA's Most Challenged Books. Stern wrote a second memoir called Miss America in 1996. Many societies have banned certain books. ... As a literary genre, a memoir forms a subclass of autobiography, although it is an older form of writing. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...