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Nov 5, 1943 — Jul 27, 2017· 73 yrs

UNITED STATES AUTHOR · DRAMA · FICTION

Sam Shepard

Also known as: Shepard, Sam, 1943-, Samuel Shepard Rogers III

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Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director whose career spanned half a century. He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most by any writer or director. He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film The Right Stuff. He received the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award as a master American dramatist in 2009. New York magazine described Shepard as "the greatest American playwright of his generation." [source](

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Center stage is an old '51 Chevrolet convertible, badly bashed and dented, no tires and the top torn to shreds.

— from The Unseen Hand and Other Plays by Sam Shepard, 2000

Most acclaimed

#2

Buried child

1979

3.3 (3)

Contains the script for the 1977 play "Buried Child" in which a family is haunted by the knowledge that their grandfather killed and buried his wife's illegitimate child years earlier.

#1

Fool for love, and other plays

1984

4.0 (1)
#3

Tooth of crime

1974

0.0 (0)

"One of the plays that first announced Sam Shepard as an original voice in American theater, Tooth of Crime is his thrillingly innovative rock drama, published here in a revised edition that is as fresh and provocative as the original was more than thirty years ago. An aging rock star in a world in which entertainment and street warfare go hand in hand, Hoss must defend himself against Crow, a newcomer who battles him for fame. Combining musical styles and intense dialogue in an unconventional musical-fantasy, Tooth of Crime riffs brilliantly on rising stars and fading legends, and rock lived and died for."--Publisher's website.

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