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Sam Shepard

February 16, 2024

For other people with similar names, see Sam Shepard (disambiguation).

Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American actor, playwright, author, director and screenwriter whose career spanned half a century.[1] 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."[2]

Sam Shepard
Shepard in 2004
Born
Samuel Shepard Rogers III

(1943-11-05)November 5, 1943
Fort Sheridan, Illinois, U.S.
DiedJuly 27, 2017(2017-07-27) (aged 73)
Midway, Kentucky, U.S.
Alma materMt. San Antonio College
Occupations
  • Actor
  • playwright
  • author
  • director
  • screenwriter
Years active1963–2017
WorksFilmography
Spouse
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(m. 1969; div. 1984)​
PartnerJessica Lange (1982–2009)
Children3
AwardsFull list
Websitesamshepardworks.com
Signature

Shepard's plays are known for their bleak, poetic, surrealist elements, black comedy, and rootless characters living on the outskirts of American society.[3] His style evolved from the absurdism of his early off-off-Broadway work to the realism of later plays like Buried Child and Curse of the Starving Class.[4]

Early life edit

Sam Shepard was born on November 5, 1943, in the Chicago suburb of Fort Sheridan, Illinois.[5] He was named Samuel Shepard Rogers III after his father, Samuel Shepard Rogers Jr. (1917–1984),[6] but was called Steve Rogers.[7]

His father was a teacher and farmer who served in the United States Army Air Forces as a bomber pilot during World War II. Shepard characterized his father as "a drinking man, a dedicated alcoholic".[8] His mother, Jane Elaine (née Schook; 1917–1994), was a teacher and a native of Chicago.[9]

Shepard grew up in southern California. He worked on a ranch as a teenager. After graduating from Duarte High School in Duarte, California, in 1961, he briefly studied animal husbandry at nearby Mt. San Antonio College.[8][10] While at college, Shepard became enamored of Samuel Beckett, jazz, and abstract expressionism. He dropped out to join the Bishop's Company, a touring repertory group.

Career edit

Writing edit

 
Shepard at age 21

Shepard moved to New York City in 1963 and found work as a busboy at the Village Gate nightclub. The following year, the Village Gate's head waiter, Ralph Cook, founded the experimental stage company Theater Genesis, housed at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery in Manhattan. Two of Shepard's earliest one-act plays, The Rock Garden and Cowboys, debuted at Theater Genesis in October 1964. It was around this time that he adopted the professional name Sam Shepard.[11]

In 1965, Shepard's one-act plays Dog and The Rocking Chair were produced at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club.[12] These were the first of many productions of Shepard's work at La MaMa during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. In 1967, Tom O'Horgan directed Shepard's Melodrama Play alongside Leonard Melfi's Times Square and Rochelle Owens' Futz at La MaMa.[13] In 1969, Jeff Bleckner directed Shepard's play The Unseen Hand at La MaMa.[14] Bleckner then directed The Unseen Hand alongside Forensic and the Navigators at the nearby Astor Place Theatre in 1970.[15]

Shepard's play Shaved Splits was directed at La MaMa in 1970 by Bill Hart.[16] Seth Allen directed Melodrama Play at La MaMa the following year.[17] In 1981, Tony Barsha directed The Unseen Hand at La MaMa. The production then transferred to the Provincetown Playhouse and ran for over 100 performances.[18] Syracuse Stage co-produced The Tooth of Crime at La MaMa in 1983.[19] Also in 1983, the Overtone Theatre and New Writers at the Westside co-produced Shepard's plays Superstitions and The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His Wife at La MaMa.[20] John Densmore performed in his own play Skins and Shepard and Joseph Chaikin's play Tongues, directed as a double bill by Tony Abatemarco, at La MaMa in 1984.[21] Nicholas Swyrydenko directed a production of Geography of a Horse Dreamer at La MaMa in 1985.[22]

Several of Shepard's early plays, including Red Cross (1966) and La Turista (1967), were directed by Jacques Levy. A patron of the Chelsea Hotel scene, he also contributed to Kenneth Tynan's Oh! Calcutta! (1969) and drummed sporadically from 1967 through 1971 with the band The Holy Modal Rounders, appearing on their albums Indian War Whoop (1967) and The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders (1968). After winning six Obie Awards between 1966 and 1968, Shepard emerged as a screenwriter with Robert Frank's Me and My Brother (1968) and Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point (1970).

Cowboy Mouth, a collaboration with his then-lover Patti Smith, was staged at The American Place Theatre in April 1971, providing early exposure for Smith, who would become a well-known musician. The story and characters in Cowboy Mouth were inspired by Shepard and Smith's relationship. After opening night, he abandoned the production and fled to New England without a word to anyone involved.[23]

Shortly thereafter, Shepard relocated with his wife and son to London. While in London, he immersed himself in the study of G.I. Gurdjieff's Fourth Way, a recurring preoccupation for much of his life. Returning to the United States in 1975, he moved to the 20-acre Flying Y Ranch in Mill Valley, California, where he raised a young colt named Drum and rode double with his young son on an appaloosa named Cody.[24][25][26][27][28] Shepard continued to write plays and served for a semester as Regents' Professor of Drama at the University of California, Davis.

Shepard accompanied Bob Dylan on the Rolling Thunder Revue of 1975 as the screenwriter for Renaldo and Clara that emerged from the tour. However, because much of the film was improvised, Shepard's work was seldom used. Rolling Thunder Logbook, his diary of the tour, was published in 1978. A decade later, Dylan and Shepard co-wrote the 11-minute song "Brownsville Girl", included on Dylan's 1986 album Knocked Out Loaded and on later compilations.

In 1975, Shepard was named playwright-in-residence at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, where he created many of his notable works, including his Family Trilogy. One of the plays in the trilogy, Buried Child (1978), won the Pulitzer Prize, and was nominated for five Tony Awards.[29] This marked a major turning point in his career, heralding some of his best-known work, including True West (1980), Fool for Love (1983), and A Lie of the Mind (1985). A comic tale of reunion, in which a young man drops in on his grandfather's Illinois farmstead only to be greeted with indifference by his relations, Buried Child saw Shepard stake a claim to the psychological terrain of classic American theater. True West and Fool for Love were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.[30][31] Some critics have expanded the trilogy to a quintet, including Fool for Love and A Lie of the Mind. Shepard won a record-setting ten Obie Awards for writing and directing between 1966 and 1984.

In 2010, A Lie of the Mind was revived in New York at the same time as Shepard's new play Ages of the Moon opened there.[32] Reflecting on the two plays, Shepard said that the older play felt "awkward", adding, "All of the characters are in a fractured place, broken into pieces, and the pieces don't really fit together," while the newer play "is like a Porsche. It's sleek, it does exactly what you want it to do, and it can speed up but also shows off great brakes."[33] The revival and the new play also coincided with the publication of Shepard's collection Day out of Days: Stories.[34] The book includes "short stories, poems and narrative sketches... that developed from dozens of leather-bound notebooks [Shepard] carried with him over the years."[33]

Acting edit

Shepard began his film acting career when cast in a major role as the land baron in Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (1978), opposite Richard Gere and Brooke Adams.[30] This led to other film roles, including that of Cal, Ellen Burstyn's character's love interest in Resurrection (1980), and, most notably, Shepard's portrayal of Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff (1983). The latter performance earned Shepard an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. By 1986, Fool for Love was adapted by Robert Altman with Shepard in the lead role; A Lie of the Mind was being performed Off Broadway (with Harvey Keitel and Geraldine Page); and Shepard was working steadily as a film actor. Together, these achievements put him on the cover of Newsweek.

Over the years, Shepard taught extensively on playwriting and other aspects of theater. He gave classes and seminars at various theater workshops, festivals, and universities. Shepard was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1986, and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986.[35] In 2000, Shepard demonstrated his gratitude to the Magic Theatre by staging The Late Henry Moss as a benefit for the theater, in San Francisco. The cast included Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Woody Harrelson, and Cheech Marin. The limited, three-month run was sold out. In 2001, Shepard played General William F. Garrison in the film Black Hawk Down. Although he was cast in a supporting role, Shepard enjoyed renewed interest in his talent for screen acting.

Shepard performed Spalding Gray's final monologue Life Interrupted for the audiobook version, released in 2006. In 2007, Shepard contributed banjo to Patti Smith's cover of Nirvana's song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on her album Twelve. Although many artists had an influence on Shepard's work, one of the more significant was Joseph Chaikin, a veteran of The Living Theatre and founder of The Open Theater.[11] The two worked together on various projects, and Shepard has stated that Chaikin was a valuable mentor.

In 2011, Shepard starred in the film Blackthorn. His final film appearance is Never Here, which premiered in June 2017 but had been filmed in 2014.[36] Shepard also appeared in the television series Bloodline from 2014 to 2017.[37]

Directing edit

At the beginning of his career, Shepard did not direct his own plays. His early plays had a number of different directors, but were most frequently directed by Ralph Cook, the founder of Theatre Genesis. Later, while living at the Flying Y Ranch, Shepard formed a successful playwright-director relationship with Robert Woodruff, who directed the premiere of Buried Child (1982). During the 1970s, Shepard decided that his vision for his plays required him to direct them himself. He directed many of his own plays from that point onward. With only a few exceptions, he did not direct plays by other playwrights. He also directed two films but reportedly did not see film directing as a major interest.

Personal life edit

When Shepard first arrived in New York City, he roomed with Charlie Mingus, Jr., a friend from high school and the son of jazz musician Charles Mingus. Shepard then lived with actress Joyce Aaron. From 1969 to 1984, he was married to actress O-Lan Jones, with whom he had one son, Jesse Mojo Shepard (born 1970). From 1970 to 1971, Shepard was involved in an extramarital affair with musician Patti Smith, who remained unaware of his identity as a multiple Obie Award-winning playwright until it was divulged to her by Jackie Curtis. Smith said: "Me and his wife still even liked each other. I mean, it wasn't like committing adultery in the suburbs or something."[38]

Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell wrote two songs about her affairs with Shepard during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour of 1975. In "Coyote", from her eighth studio album Hejira, she recounts Shepard's seduction of her at a period while he was both married and having an extramarital affair with tour manager Christine O'Dell with the lines: "He's got a woman at home, another woman down the hall, but he seems to want me anyway."[39] Meanwhile, in "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter", written during the same tour, Mitchell referenced the closeness between their birthdays, calling them "twins of spirit".[40]

Shepard met actress Jessica Lange on the set of the 1982 film Frances, in which they were both acting. He moved in with her in 1983, and they were together for 27 years; they separated in 2009.[41] They had two children, Hannah Jane Shepard (born 1986) and Samuel Walker Shepard (born 1987). In 2003, Shepard's elder son, Jesse, wrote a book of short stories, and Shepard appeared with him at a reading at City Lights Bookstore.[42] In 2014 and 2015, Shepard dated actress Mia Kirshner.[43][44]

After a turbulent trip on an airliner returning from Mexico in the 1960s, he apparently vowed never to fly again.[45] Despite this longstanding aversion to flying, Shepard allowed Chuck Yeager to take him up in a jet in 1982 in preparation for playing the pilot in the film The Right Stuff.[46][47] Shepard cited his fear of flying as a source for a character in his 1966 play Icarus's Mother.[48] His character went through an airliner crash in the film Voyager.

In the early morning hours of January 3, 2009, Shepard was arrested and charged with speeding and drunk driving in Normal, Illinois.[49] He pleaded guilty to both charges on February 11, 2009, and was sentenced to 24 months probation, alcohol education classes, and 100 hours of community service.[50] On May 25, 2015, Shepard was arrested again in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for aggravated drunk driving.[51] Those charges were later dismissed as having no likelihood of conviction at trial.[52]

His 50-year friendship with Johnny Dark, stepfather to O-Lan Jones, was the subject of the 2013 documentary Shepard & Dark by Treva Wurmfeld.[53] A collection of Shepard and Dark's correspondence, Two Prospectors, was also published that year.[54]

Death edit

Shepard died on July 27, 2017, at his home in Midway, Kentucky, aged 73, from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).[5][55][56] Patti Smith paid homage to their long collaboration in The New Yorker.[57] Fellow actor Matthew McConaughey, who had co-starred with Shepard in Mud, learned of Shepard's death during a television interview and was shocked by the news, ending the interview saying: "See you in the next one, Sam."[58]

Archives edit

Sam Shepard's papers are split between the Wittliff Collections of Southwestern Writers at Texas State University, comprising 27 boxes (13 linear feet)[59] and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, comprising 30 document boxes (12.6 linear feet).[60]

Bibliography edit

Plays edit

Collections edit

  • 1973: Hawk Moon, Black Sparrow Press; ISBN 0-933826-23-0
  • 1983: Motel Chronicles, City Lights; ISBN 0-87286-143-0
  • 1984: Seven Plays, Dial Press, 368 pages; ISBN 0-553-34611-3
  • 1984: Fool for Love and Other Plays, Bantam Books, 320 pages; ISBN 0-553-34590-7
  • 1996: The Unseen Hand: and Other Plays, Vintage Books, 400 pages; ISBN 0-679-76789-4
  • 1996: Cruising Paradise, Vintage Books, 255 pages; ISBN 0-679-74217-4
  • 2003: Great Dream of Heaven, Vintage Books, 160 pages; ISBN 0-375-70452-3
  • 2004: Rolling Thunder Logbook, Da Capo Press, 176 pages (reissue); ISBN 0-306-81371-8
  • 2004: Day Out of Days: Stories, Knopf, 304 pages; ISBN 978-0-307-26540-1
  • 2013: Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark, University of Texas Press, 400 pages; ISBN 978-0-292-76196-4

Novels edit

Filmography edit

Main article: Sam Shepard filmography

Awards and nominations edit

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Sam Shepard

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Shewey, Don (1997). Sam Shepard. Perseus Books Group. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-30680-770-1. He was born Samuel Shepard Rogers III and called Steve, although if he were royalty his name would have been Samuel Shepard Rogers VII.
  2. ^ Wetzsteon, Ross (November 11, 1984). "The Genius of Sam Shepard". New York. from the original on May 3, 2016. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
  3. ^ "Wim Wenders à propos de Sam Shepard (Video)" [Wim Wenders on Sam Shepard]. Institut national de l'audiovisuel (in French). May 2, 1984. from the original on August 19, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
  4. ^ Bloom, Harold (2009). Harold Bloom's Major Dramatists: Sam Shepard. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-1-43811-646-4. from the original on July 30, 2017. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
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  6. ^ Samuel Shepard Rogers, Jr., Sam Shepard's father
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  8. ^ a b O'Mahony, John (October 11, 2003). "The write stuff". The Guardian. London. from the original on April 14, 2017.
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  11. ^ a b Botting, Gary (1972). The Theatre of Protest in America. Harden House. from the original on July 30, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  12. ^ "Production: 'Two One-Act Plays by Sam Shepard' (1965)". La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  13. ^ "Production: Times Square, Melodrama Play, and Futz (1967)". La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  14. ^ "Production: Unseen Hand, The (1969)". La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  15. ^ "Production: Two By Sam Shepard (1970)". La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  16. ^ "Production: Shaved Splits (1970)". La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  17. ^ "Production: Melodrama Play (1971)". La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  18. ^ "Production: Unseen Hand, The (1981)". La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  19. ^ "Production: Tooth of Crime, The (1983)". La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  20. ^ "Production: Superstitions and The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His Wife (1983)". La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  21. ^ "Production: Tongues and Skins (1984)". La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  22. ^ "Production: Geography of a Horse Dreamer (1985)". La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  23. ^ Blackburn, John (May 1, 1996). "III. Cowboy Mouth". Portrait of the Artist: Sam Shepard and the Anxiety of Identity. from the original on December 6, 2015. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  24. ^ "The Flying Y Ranch". San Rafael Daily Independent Journal. August 19, 1963. p. 13 – via NewspaperARCHIVE.com. The Flying Y Ranch above Mill Valley is a popular place throughout the year with 4-H groups and Southern Marin Horsemen's Assn. members...
  25. ^ Oldenburg, Chuck (July 2001). "Where is Homestead Valley?". Mill Valley Historical Society. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
  26. ^ Oldenburg, Chuck (August 2013). "4-H Valley Riders". Mill Valley Historical Society. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
  27. ^ "Jesse Mojo Shepard". Sam Shepard.com. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
  28. ^ Benson, Heidi (February 21, 2003). "Sam Shepard's kid in writing game / Like his father's, Jesse's stories are filled with horses". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
  29. ^ Chan, Stella; Thomas, Megan (August 1, 2017). "Sam Shepard, playwright and actor, dead at 73". CNN. from the original on August 2, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
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  31. ^ Lee, Ashley (August 1, 2017). "Broadway to Dim Lights in Memory of Sam Shepard". The Hollywood Reporter. from the original on August 1, 2017.
  32. ^ Brantley, Ben (February 19, 2010). "Theater Review: Home Is Where the Soul Aches". The New York Times. from the original on February 25, 2010. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
  33. ^ a b Healy, Patrick (February 13, 2010). "Getting Faster With Age: Sam Shepard's New Velocity". The New York Times. Retrieved February 13, 2010.
  34. ^ Kirn, Walter (January 17, 2010). "Sam Shepard: The Highwayman – Review of Day out of Days: Stories by Sam Shepard". The New York Times. from the original on February 18, 2010. Retrieved February 13, 2010.
  35. ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter S" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. from the original on July 30, 2017. Retrieved April 22, 2011.
  36. ^ "Feature Films: 'You Were Never Here'". Backstage. November 2014. from the original on August 2, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
  37. ^ "Bloodline". The Sam Shepard Web Site. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
  38. ^ Morrisroe, Patricia (1995). "Patti Smith and Sam Shepard". Mapplethorpe: A Biography – via Ocean Star.
  39. ^ Banerji, Atreyi (February 21, 2021). "The story behind Joni Mitchell's classic song 'Coyote'". faroutmagazine.co.uk. Retrieved June 11, 2022.
  40. ^ David Yaffe, Daughter – A Portrait of Joni Mitchell, Sarah Crichton Books, 2019, pp. 204, 206.
  41. ^ Johnson, Zach (December 19, 2011). "Rep: Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard Have Separated". Us Weekly. from the original on March 20, 2012. Retrieved May 22, 2012.
  42. ^ Sullivan, James (April 26, 2003). "The Scene: Sam Shepard joins Jesse Shepard for a reading at City Lights". San Francisco Chronicle. from the original on December 2, 2013. Retrieved April 24, 2013.
  43. ^ "Sam Shepard and girlfriend Mia Kirshner shopping in Soho, New York, America", rexfeatures.com, November 23, 2014
  44. ^ "Sam Shepard out and about, New York, America", rexfeatures.com, March 30, 2015
  45. ^ Callens, Mark (1998). Sam Shepard V8, Part 4. Taylor & Francis. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-20398-989-0. from the original on July 7, 2014. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  46. ^ Kirn, Walter (May 13, 1996). "Tales of Two Hipsters". New York. from the original on July 7, 2014. Retrieved April 24, 2013.
  47. ^ Lang, Peter (2007). Dis/figuring Sam Shepard. Brussels: P.I.E Peter Lang. p. 42. ISBN 978-9-05201-352-7. from the original on December 17, 2014. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  48. ^ Bottoms, Stephen J. (1998). The Theatre of Sam Shepard: States of Crisis. Cambridge University Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-52158-791-4. from the original on December 9, 2014. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  49. ^ "Sam Shepard Arrested – Blows It Big Time". TMZ. January 3, 2009. from the original on February 17, 2009. Retrieved February 16, 2009.
  50. ^ "Sam Shepard Guilty of Very Drunken Driving". TMZ. February 11, 2009. from the original on February 13, 2009.
  51. ^ Mackie, Drew (May 26, 2015). "Actor/Playwright Sam Shepard Arrested on Drunk Driving Charges in Santa Fe". People. from the original on May 27, 2015.
  52. ^ Carrillo, Edmundo (December 17, 2015). "Playwright Sam Shepard's DWI charge dismissed". Albuquerque Journal. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
  53. ^ DeMara, Bruce (March 7, 2013). "Shepard & Dark, a testament to friendship: review". Toronto Star. from the original on April 4, 2013. Retrieved April 24, 2013.
  54. ^ Shepard, Sam; Dark, Johnny (November 2013). Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-29275-422-5.
  55. ^ Hill, Libby (July 31, 2017). "Sam Shepard, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, dies at 73". Los Angeles Times. from the original on July 31, 2017. Retrieved August 1, 2017.
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  57. ^ Smith, Patti (August 1, 2017). "My Buddy". The New Yorker. Retrieved September 3, 2017.
  58. ^ Rubin, Rebecca (August 1, 2017). "Matthew McConaughey Learned About Sam Shepard's Death on Red Carpet". Variety.
  59. ^ "Sam Shepard Papers, 1972–1999". Texas State University – San Marcos. from the original on July 30, 2017. Retrieved August 2, 2017.
  60. ^ "Sam Shepard: An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center". University of Texas at Austin. Processed by: Liz Murray (2011), Daniela Lozano (2012). Retrieved September 4, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  61. ^ Winters, J.J. (2017). Sam Shepard: A Life. Catapult. p. 93. ISBN 978-1-61902-984-2. Retrieved May 23, 2023.

Further reading edit

  • Radavich, David. "Back to the (Plutonian) Midwest: Sam Shepard's The God of Hell". New England Theatre Journal 18 (2007): 95–108.
  • Radavich, David. "Rabe, Mamet, Shepard, and Wilson: Mid-American Male Dramatists of the 1970s and '80s". The Midwest Quarterly XLVIII: 3 (Spring 2007): 342–58.
  • Shewey, Don (1997). Sam Shepard. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-80770-1.
  • Ryder Howe, Benjamin; McCulloch, Jeanne; Simpson, Mona (1997). "Sam Shepard, The Art of Theater No. 12". The Paris Review. Spring 1997 (142).
  • Corrigan, Michael (May 12, 2015). "Cruising Paradise with Sam Shepard". Atticus Review. Retrieved September 4, 2017.
  • Winters, John (2017). Sam Shepard: a life. Berkeley, California. ISBN 9781619027084. OCLC 960836493.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

External links edit

  • Official website  

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For other people with similar names see Sam Shepard disambiguation Samuel Shepard Rogers III November 5 1943 July 27 2017 was an American actor playwright author director and screenwriter whose career spanned half a century 1 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 2 Sam ShepardShepard in 2004BornSamuel Shepard Rogers III 1943 11 05 November 5 1943Fort Sheridan Illinois U S DiedJuly 27 2017 2017 07 27 aged 73 Midway Kentucky U S Alma materMt San Antonio CollegeOccupationsActor playwright author director screenwriterYears active1963 2017WorksFilmographySpouseO Lan Jones m 1969 div 1984 wbr PartnerJessica Lange 1982 2009 Children3AwardsFull listWebsitesamshepardworks wbr comSignatureShepard s plays are known for their bleak poetic surrealist elements black comedy and rootless characters living on the outskirts of American society 3 His style evolved from the absurdism of his early off off Broadway work to the realism of later plays like Buried Child and Curse of the Starving Class 4 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Writing 2 2 Acting 2 3 Directing 3 Personal life 4 Death 5 Archives 6 Bibliography 6 1 Plays 6 2 Collections 6 3 Novels 7 Filmography 8 Awards and nominations 9 See also 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External linksEarly life editSam Shepard was born on November 5 1943 in the Chicago suburb of Fort Sheridan Illinois 5 He was named Samuel Shepard Rogers III after his father Samuel Shepard Rogers Jr 1917 1984 6 but was called Steve Rogers 7 His father was a teacher and farmer who served in the United States Army Air Forces as a bomber pilot during World War II Shepard characterized his father as a drinking man a dedicated alcoholic 8 His mother Jane Elaine nee Schook 1917 1994 was a teacher and a native of Chicago 9 Shepard grew up in southern California He worked on a ranch as a teenager After graduating from Duarte High School in Duarte California in 1961 he briefly studied animal husbandry at nearby Mt San Antonio College 8 10 While at college Shepard became enamored of Samuel Beckett jazz and abstract expressionism He dropped out to join the Bishop s Company a touring repertory group Career editWriting edit nbsp Shepard at age 21Shepard moved to New York City in 1963 and found work as a busboy at the Village Gate nightclub The following year the Village Gate s head waiter Ralph Cook founded the experimental stage company Theater Genesis housed at St Mark s Church in the Bowery in Manhattan Two of Shepard s earliest one act plays The Rock Garden and Cowboys debuted at Theater Genesis in October 1964 It was around this time that he adopted the professional name Sam Shepard 11 In 1965 Shepard s one act plays Dog and The Rocking Chair were produced at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club 12 These were the first of many productions of Shepard s work at La MaMa during the 1960s 1970s and 1980s In 1967 Tom O Horgan directed Shepard s Melodrama Play alongside Leonard Melfi s Times Square and Rochelle Owens Futz at La MaMa 13 In 1969 Jeff Bleckner directed Shepard s play The Unseen Hand at La MaMa 14 Bleckner then directed The Unseen Hand alongside Forensic and the Navigators at the nearby Astor Place Theatre in 1970 15 Shepard s play Shaved Splits was directed at La MaMa in 1970 by Bill Hart 16 Seth Allen directed Melodrama Play at La MaMa the following year 17 In 1981 Tony Barsha directed The Unseen Hand at La MaMa The production then transferred to the Provincetown Playhouse and ran for over 100 performances 18 Syracuse Stage co produced The Tooth of Crime at La MaMa in 1983 19 Also in 1983 the Overtone Theatre and New Writers at the Westside co produced Shepard s plays Superstitions and The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His Wife at La MaMa 20 John Densmore performed in his own play Skins and Shepard and Joseph Chaikin s play Tongues directed as a double bill by Tony Abatemarco at La MaMa in 1984 21 Nicholas Swyrydenko directed a production of Geography of a Horse Dreamer at La MaMa in 1985 22 Several of Shepard s early plays including Red Cross 1966 and La Turista 1967 were directed by Jacques Levy A patron of the Chelsea Hotel scene he also contributed to Kenneth Tynan s Oh Calcutta 1969 and drummed sporadically from 1967 through 1971 with the band The Holy Modal Rounders appearing on their albums Indian War Whoop 1967 and The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders 1968 After winning six Obie Awards between 1966 and 1968 Shepard emerged as a screenwriter with Robert Frank s Me and My Brother 1968 and Michelangelo Antonioni s Zabriskie Point 1970 Cowboy Mouth a collaboration with his then lover Patti Smith was staged at The American Place Theatre in April 1971 providing early exposure for Smith who would become a well known musician The story and characters in Cowboy Mouth were inspired by Shepard and Smith s relationship After opening night he abandoned the production and fled to New England without a word to anyone involved 23 Shortly thereafter Shepard relocated with his wife and son to London While in London he immersed himself in the study of G I Gurdjieff s Fourth Way a recurring preoccupation for much of his life Returning to the United States in 1975 he moved to the 20 acre Flying Y Ranch in Mill Valley California where he raised a young colt named Drum and rode double with his young son on an appaloosa named Cody 24 25 26 27 28 Shepard continued to write plays and served for a semester as Regents Professor of Drama at the University of California Davis Shepard accompanied Bob Dylan on the Rolling Thunder Revue of 1975 as the screenwriter for Renaldo and Clara that emerged from the tour However because much of the film was improvised Shepard s work was seldom used Rolling Thunder Logbook his diary of the tour was published in 1978 A decade later Dylan and Shepard co wrote the 11 minute song Brownsville Girl included on Dylan s 1986 album Knocked Out Loaded and on later compilations In 1975 Shepard was named playwright in residence at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco where he created many of his notable works including his Family Trilogy One of the plays in the trilogy Buried Child 1978 won the Pulitzer Prize and was nominated for five Tony Awards 29 This marked a major turning point in his career heralding some of his best known work including True West 1980 Fool for Love 1983 and A Lie of the Mind 1985 A comic tale of reunion in which a young man drops in on his grandfather s Illinois farmstead only to be greeted with indifference by his relations Buried Child saw Shepard stake a claim to the psychological terrain of classic American theater True West and Fool for Love were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize 30 31 Some critics have expanded the trilogy to a quintet including Fool for Love and A Lie of the Mind Shepard won a record setting ten Obie Awards for writing and directing between 1966 and 1984 In 2010 A Lie of the Mind was revived in New York at the same time as Shepard s new play Ages of the Moon opened there 32 Reflecting on the two plays Shepard said that the older play felt awkward adding All of the characters are in a fractured place broken into pieces and the pieces don t really fit together while the newer play is like a Porsche It s sleek it does exactly what you want it to do and it can speed up but also shows off great brakes 33 The revival and the new play also coincided with the publication of Shepard s collection Day out of Days Stories 34 The book includes short stories poems and narrative sketches that developed from dozens of leather bound notebooks Shepard carried with him over the years 33 Acting edit Shepard began his film acting career when cast in a major role as the land baron in Terrence Malick s Days of Heaven 1978 opposite Richard Gere and Brooke Adams 30 This led to other film roles including that of Cal Ellen Burstyn s character s love interest in Resurrection 1980 and most notably Shepard s portrayal of Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff 1983 The latter performance earned Shepard an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor By 1986 Fool for Love was adapted by Robert Altman with Shepard in the lead role A Lie of the Mind was being performed Off Broadway with Harvey Keitel and Geraldine Page and Shepard was working steadily as a film actor Together these achievements put him on the cover of Newsweek Over the years Shepard taught extensively on playwriting and other aspects of theater He gave classes and seminars at various theater workshops festivals and universities Shepard was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1986 and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986 35 In 2000 Shepard demonstrated his gratitude to the Magic Theatre by staging The Late Henry Moss as a benefit for the theater in San Francisco The cast included Nick Nolte Sean Penn Woody Harrelson and Cheech Marin The limited three month run was sold out In 2001 Shepard played General William F Garrison in the film Black Hawk Down Although he was cast in a supporting role Shepard enjoyed renewed interest in his talent for screen acting Shepard performed Spalding Gray s final monologue Life Interrupted for the audiobook version released in 2006 In 2007 Shepard contributed banjo to Patti Smith s cover of Nirvana s song Smells Like Teen Spirit on her album Twelve Although many artists had an influence on Shepard s work one of the more significant was Joseph Chaikin a veteran of The Living Theatre and founder of The Open Theater 11 The two worked together on various projects and Shepard has stated that Chaikin was a valuable mentor In 2011 Shepard starred in the film Blackthorn His final film appearance is Never Here which premiered in June 2017 but had been filmed in 2014 36 Shepard also appeared in the television series Bloodline from 2014 to 2017 37 Directing edit At the beginning of his career Shepard did not direct his own plays His early plays had a number of different directors but were most frequently directed by Ralph Cook the founder of Theatre Genesis Later while living at the Flying Y Ranch Shepard formed a successful playwright director relationship with Robert Woodruff who directed the premiere of Buried Child 1982 During the 1970s Shepard decided that his vision for his plays required him to direct them himself He directed many of his own plays from that point onward With only a few exceptions he did not direct plays by other playwrights He also directed two films but reportedly did not see film directing as a major interest Personal life editWhen Shepard first arrived in New York City he roomed with Charlie Mingus Jr a friend from high school and the son of jazz musician Charles Mingus Shepard then lived with actress Joyce Aaron From 1969 to 1984 he was married to actress O Lan Jones with whom he had one son Jesse Mojo Shepard born 1970 From 1970 to 1971 Shepard was involved in an extramarital affair with musician Patti Smith who remained unaware of his identity as a multiple Obie Award winning playwright until it was divulged to her by Jackie Curtis Smith said Me and his wife still even liked each other I mean it wasn t like committing adultery in the suburbs or something 38 Canadian singer songwriter Joni Mitchell wrote two songs about her affairs with Shepard during Bob Dylan s Rolling Thunder Revue tour of 1975 In Coyote from her eighth studio album Hejira she recounts Shepard s seduction of her at a period while he was both married and having an extramarital affair with tour manager Christine O Dell with the lines He s got a woman at home another woman down the hall but he seems to want me anyway 39 Meanwhile in Don Juan s Reckless Daughter written during the same tour Mitchell referenced the closeness between their birthdays calling them twins of spirit 40 Shepard met actress Jessica Lange on the set of the 1982 film Frances in which they were both acting He moved in with her in 1983 and they were together for 27 years they separated in 2009 41 They had two children Hannah Jane Shepard born 1986 and Samuel Walker Shepard born 1987 In 2003 Shepard s elder son Jesse wrote a book of short stories and Shepard appeared with him at a reading at City Lights Bookstore 42 In 2014 and 2015 Shepard dated actress Mia Kirshner 43 44 After a turbulent trip on an airliner returning from Mexico in the 1960s he apparently vowed never to fly again 45 Despite this longstanding aversion to flying Shepard allowed Chuck Yeager to take him up in a jet in 1982 in preparation for playing the pilot in the film The Right Stuff 46 47 Shepard cited his fear of flying as a source for a character in his 1966 play Icarus s Mother 48 His character went through an airliner crash in the film Voyager In the early morning hours of January 3 2009 Shepard was arrested and charged with speeding and drunk driving in Normal Illinois 49 He pleaded guilty to both charges on February 11 2009 and was sentenced to 24 months probation alcohol education classes and 100 hours of community service 50 On May 25 2015 Shepard was arrested again in Santa Fe New Mexico for aggravated drunk driving 51 Those charges were later dismissed as having no likelihood of conviction at trial 52 His 50 year friendship with Johnny Dark stepfather to O Lan Jones was the subject of the 2013 documentary Shepard amp Dark by Treva Wurmfeld 53 A collection of Shepard and Dark s correspondence Two Prospectors was also published that year 54 Death editShepard died on July 27 2017 at his home in Midway Kentucky aged 73 from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ALS 5 55 56 Patti Smith paid homage to their long collaboration in The New Yorker 57 Fellow actor Matthew McConaughey who had co starred with Shepard in Mud learned of Shepard s death during a television interview and was shocked by the news ending the interview saying See you in the next one Sam 58 Archives editSam Shepard s papers are split between the Wittliff Collections of Southwestern Writers at Texas State University comprising 27 boxes 13 linear feet 59 and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin comprising 30 document boxes 12 6 linear feet 60 Bibliography editPlays edit 1964 Cowboys 1964 The Rock Garden 1964 Up to Thursday 61 1965 Chicago 1965 Icarus s Mother 1965 4 H Club 1966 Red Cross 1966 Fourteen Hundred Thousand 1967 La Turista 1967 Cowboys 2 1967 Forensic amp the Navigators 1969 The Unseen Hand 1969 Oh Calcutta contributed sketches 1970 The Holy Ghostly 1970 Operation Sidewinder 1970 Shaved Splits 1971 Mad Dog Blues 1971 Back Bog Beast Bait 1971 Cowboy Mouth with Patti Smith 1972 The Tooth of Crime 1974 Geography of a Horse Dreamer 1975 Killer s Head 1975 Action 1976 Angel City 1976 Suicide in B Flat 1977 Inacoma 1978 Curse of the Starving Class 1978 Buried Child 1978 Tongues with Joseph Chaikin 1979 Seduced a Play in Two Acts 1980 True West 1981 Savage Love with Joseph Chaikin 1983 Fool for Love 1985 A Lie of the Mind 1987 A Short Life of Trouble 1987 The War in Heaven Angel s Monologue with Joseph Chaikin and Rick Harris 1991 States of Shock 1993 Simpatico 1996 Tooth of Crime Second Dance 1998 Eyes for Consuela 2000 The Late Henry Moss 2004 The Notebook 2004 The God of Hell 2007 Kicking a Dead Horse 2009 Ages of the Moon 2011 Blackthorn 2012 Heartless 2014 A Particle of Dread Oedipus Variations Collections edit 1973 Hawk Moon Black Sparrow Press ISBN 0 933826 23 0 1983 Motel Chronicles City Lights ISBN 0 87286 143 0 1984 Seven Plays Dial Press 368 pages ISBN 0 553 34611 3 1984 Fool for Love and Other Plays Bantam Books 320 pages ISBN 0 553 34590 7 1996 The Unseen Hand and Other Plays Vintage Books 400 pages ISBN 0 679 76789 4 1996 Cruising Paradise Vintage Books 255 pages ISBN 0 679 74217 4 2003 Great Dream of Heaven Vintage Books 160 pages ISBN 0 375 70452 3 2004 Rolling Thunder Logbook Da Capo Press 176 pages reissue ISBN 0 306 81371 8 2004 Day Out of Days Stories Knopf 304 pages ISBN 978 0 307 26540 1 2013 Two Prospectors The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark University of Texas Press 400 pages ISBN 978 0 292 76196 4Novels edit 2017 The One Inside Knopf 172 pages ISBN 978 0 451 49458 0 2017 Spy of the First Person Knopf 96 pages published posthumously ISBN 978 0 525 52156 3Filmography editMain article Sam Shepard filmographyAwards and nominations editMain article List of awards and nominations received by Sam ShepardSee also editList of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Literature List of playwrights from the United StatesReferences edit Shewey Don 1997 Sam Shepard Perseus Books Group p 13 ISBN 978 0 30680 770 1 He was born Samuel Shepard Rogers III and called Steve although if he were royalty his name would have been Samuel Shepard Rogers VII Wetzsteon Ross November 11 1984 The Genius of Sam Shepard New York Archived from the original on May 3 2016 Retrieved December 9 2015 Wim Wenders a propos de Sam Shepard Video Wim Wenders on Sam Shepard Institut national de l audiovisuel in French May 2 1984 Archived from the original on August 19 2017 Retrieved June 13 2019 Bloom Harold 2009 Harold Bloom s Major Dramatists Sam Shepard Infobase Publishing ISBN 978 1 43811 646 4 Archived from the original on July 30 2017 Retrieved December 12 2015 a b Brantley Ben July 31 2017 Sam Shepard Pulitzer Winning Playwright and Actor Is Dead at 73 The New York Times Archived from the original on July 31 2017 Retrieved June 13 2019 Samuel Shepard Rogers Jr Sam Shepard s father Bloom Harold 2009 Sam Shepard Infobase Publishing p 12 ISBN 978 1 4381 1646 4 Archived from the original on June 30 2016 Retrieved May 10 2016 a b O Mahony John October 11 2003 The write stuff The Guardian London Archived from the original on April 14 2017 Sam Shepard biography Film Reference Archived from the original on December 2 2008 Retrieved November 25 2008 Shirley Don January 14 1979 Searching for Sam Shepard The Washington Post Retrieved August 16 2018 a b Botting Gary 1972 The Theatre of Protest in America Harden House Archived from the original on July 30 2017 Retrieved December 14 2015 Production Two One Act Plays by Sam Shepard 1965 La MaMa Archives Digital Collections 2015 Retrieved August 29 2018 Production Times Square Melodrama Play and Futz 1967 La MaMa Archives Digital Collections 2015 Retrieved August 29 2018 Production Unseen Hand The 1969 La MaMa Archives Digital Collections 2015 Retrieved August 29 2018 Production Two By Sam Shepard 1970 La MaMa Archives Digital Collections 2015 Retrieved August 29 2018 Production Shaved Splits 1970 La MaMa Archives Digital Collections 2015 Retrieved August 29 2018 Production Melodrama Play 1971 La MaMa Archives Digital Collections 2015 Retrieved August 29 2018 Production Unseen Hand The 1981 La MaMa Archives Digital Collections 2015 Retrieved August 29 2018 Production Tooth of Crime The 1983 La MaMa Archives Digital Collections 2015 Retrieved August 29 2018 Production Superstitions and The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His Wife 1983 La MaMa Archives Digital Collections 2015 Retrieved August 29 2018 Production Tongues and Skins 1984 La MaMa Archives Digital Collections 2015 Retrieved August 29 2018 Production Geography of a Horse Dreamer 1985 La MaMa Archives Digital Collections 2015 Retrieved August 29 2018 Blackburn John May 1 1996 III Cowboy Mouth Portrait of the Artist Sam Shepard and the Anxiety of Identity Archived from the original on December 6 2015 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a website ignored help The Flying Y Ranch San Rafael Daily Independent Journal August 19 1963 p 13 via NewspaperARCHIVE com The Flying Y Ranch above Mill Valley is a popular place throughout the year with 4 H groups and Southern Marin Horsemen s Assn members Oldenburg Chuck July 2001 Where is Homestead Valley Mill Valley Historical Society Retrieved August 16 2018 Oldenburg Chuck August 2013 4 H Valley Riders Mill Valley Historical Society Retrieved August 16 2018 Jesse Mojo Shepard Sam Shepard com Retrieved August 16 2018 Benson Heidi February 21 2003 Sam Shepard s kid in writing game Like his father s Jesse s stories are filled with horses San Francisco Chronicle Retrieved August 16 2018 Chan Stella Thomas Megan August 1 2017 Sam Shepard playwright and actor dead at 73 CNN Archived from the original on August 2 2017 Retrieved June 13 2019 a b Sam Shepard US actor and playwright dies aged 73 BBC News July 31 2017 Archived from the original on August 2 2017 Retrieved June 13 2019 Lee Ashley August 1 2017 Broadway to Dim Lights in Memory of Sam Shepard The Hollywood Reporter Archived from the original on August 1 2017 Brantley Ben February 19 2010 Theater Review Home Is Where the Soul Aches The New York Times Archived from the original on February 25 2010 Retrieved June 13 2019 a b Healy Patrick February 13 2010 Getting Faster With Age Sam Shepard s New Velocity The New York Times Retrieved February 13 2010 Kirn Walter January 17 2010 Sam Shepard The Highwayman Review of Day out of Days Stories by Sam Shepard The New York Times Archived from the original on February 18 2010 Retrieved February 13 2010 Book of Members 1780 2010 Chapter S PDF American Academy of Arts and Sciences Archived from the original on July 30 2017 Retrieved April 22 2011 Feature Films You Were Never Here Backstage November 2014 Archived from the original on August 2 2017 Retrieved June 13 2019 Bloodline The Sam Shepard Web Site Retrieved June 13 2019 Morrisroe Patricia 1995 Patti Smith and Sam Shepard Mapplethorpe A Biography via Ocean Star Banerji Atreyi February 21 2021 The story behind Joni Mitchell s classic song Coyote faroutmagazine co uk Retrieved June 11 2022 David Yaffe Daughter A Portrait of Joni Mitchell Sarah Crichton Books 2019 pp 204 206 Johnson Zach December 19 2011 Rep Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard Have Separated Us Weekly Archived from the original on March 20 2012 Retrieved May 22 2012 Sullivan James April 26 2003 The Scene Sam Shepard joins Jesse Shepard for a reading at City Lights San Francisco Chronicle Archived from the original on December 2 2013 Retrieved April 24 2013 Sam Shepard and girlfriend Mia Kirshner shopping in Soho New York America rexfeatures com November 23 2014 Sam Shepard out and about New York America rexfeatures com March 30 2015 Callens Mark 1998 Sam Shepard V8 Part 4 Taylor amp Francis p 79 ISBN 978 0 20398 989 0 Archived from the original on July 7 2014 Retrieved December 14 2015 Kirn Walter May 13 1996 Tales of Two Hipsters New York Archived from the original on July 7 2014 Retrieved April 24 2013 Lang Peter 2007 Dis figuring Sam Shepard Brussels P I E Peter Lang p 42 ISBN 978 9 05201 352 7 Archived from the original on December 17 2014 Retrieved December 14 2015 Bottoms Stephen J 1998 The Theatre of Sam Shepard States of Crisis Cambridge University Press p 41 ISBN 978 0 52158 791 4 Archived from the original on December 9 2014 Retrieved December 14 2015 Sam Shepard Arrested Blows It Big Time TMZ January 3 2009 Archived from the original on February 17 2009 Retrieved February 16 2009 Sam Shepard Guilty of Very Drunken Driving TMZ February 11 2009 Archived from the original on February 13 2009 Mackie Drew May 26 2015 Actor Playwright Sam Shepard Arrested on Drunk Driving Charges in Santa Fe People Archived from the original on May 27 2015 Carrillo Edmundo December 17 2015 Playwright Sam Shepard s DWI charge dismissed Albuquerque Journal Retrieved June 13 2019 DeMara Bruce March 7 2013 Shepard amp Dark a testament to friendship review Toronto Star Archived from the original on April 4 2013 Retrieved April 24 2013 Shepard Sam Dark Johnny November 2013 Two Prospectors The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark University of Texas Press ISBN 978 0 29275 422 5 Hill Libby July 31 2017 Sam Shepard Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and Oscar nominated actor dies at 73 Los Angeles Times Archived from the original on July 31 2017 Retrieved August 1 2017 Desta Yohana July 31 2017 Sam Shepard Prolific Playwright and Actor Dies at 73 Vanity Fair Retrieved May 17 2018 Smith Patti August 1 2017 My Buddy The New Yorker Retrieved September 3 2017 Rubin Rebecca August 1 2017 Matthew McConaughey Learned About Sam Shepard s Death on Red Carpet Variety Sam Shepard Papers 1972 1999 Texas State University San Marcos Archived from the original on July 30 2017 Retrieved August 2 2017 Sam Shepard An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center University of Texas at Austin Processed by Liz Murray 2011 Daniela Lozano 2012 Retrieved September 4 2017 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint others link Winters J J 2017 Sam Shepard A Life Catapult p 93 ISBN 978 1 61902 984 2 Retrieved May 23 2023 Further reading editRadavich David Back to the Plutonian Midwest Sam Shepard s The God of Hell New England Theatre Journal 18 2007 95 108 Radavich David Rabe Mamet Shepard and Wilson Mid American Male Dramatists of the 1970s and 80s The Midwest Quarterly XLVIII 3 Spring 2007 342 58 Shewey Don 1997 Sam Shepard Cambridge Massachusetts Da Capo Press ISBN 978 0 306 80770 1 Ryder Howe Benjamin McCulloch Jeanne Simpson Mona 1997 Sam Shepard The Art of Theater No 12 The Paris Review Spring 1997 142 Corrigan Michael May 12 2015 Cruising Paradise with Sam Shepard Atticus Review Retrieved September 4 2017 Winters John 2017 Sam Shepard a life Berkeley California ISBN 9781619027084 OCLC 960836493 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location missing publisher link External links editSam Shepard at Wikipedia s sister projects nbsp Media from Commons nbsp Data from Wikidata Official website nbsp The Flying Y Ranch Archived August 16 2018 at the Wayback Machine Sam Shepard Papers at the Harry Ransom Center University of Texas at Austin Sam Shepard at Bucknell University Sam Shepard at IMDb Sam Shepard at the Internet Broadway Database Sam Shepard at the Internet Off Broadway Database Sam Shepard at the TCM Movie Database Sam Shepard at AllMovie Carol Benet collection of Sam Shepard research materials 1970 1995 Billy Rose Theatre Division New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Shepard s page on La MaMa Archives Digital Collections Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Sam Shepard amp oldid 1206962710, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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