Where can I find out about radio shock jock Howard Stern?

Howard Stern was born into a Jewish American family in Roosevelt, Long Island, New York. His father Ben owned a Manhattan recording studio, where Howard developed an interest in broadcasting as a child. Although both his parents are Jewish, Stern has long claimed on his show to be "a half-Jew" and "half-Italian". This claim is most likely a comedy bit, as Stern sometimes utters Yiddish phrases on the air which he claims to be Italian phrases. Stern's Hebrew name is Tzvi; his paternal grandparents, Froim and Anna (Gallar) Stern and maternal grandparents, Sol and Esther (Reich) Schiffman, were Austro-Hungarian Jews who immigrated to America at about the same time.