Sam Shepard (1943–2017) was a playwright, screenwriter, prose writer, actor, and film and stage director. In a career spanning more than five decades, Shepard wrote nearly fifty plays, earning numerous awards, including twelve Obies, and a reputation for creating worlds peopled by drifters and fading rock stars. Among his best-known works are Buried Child, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize; True West; A Fool for Love; and the screenplay for the film Paris, Texas, which he cowrote. He died from complications attributed to ALS on his farm in Midway, Kentucky.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Pink Adobe, a memoir, in Spring 2020