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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF" title="سام شيبارد – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="سام شيبارد" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B4%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF" title="سام شپارد – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="سام شپارد" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8D%D0%BC_%D0%A8%D1%8D%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4" title="Сэм Шэпард – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Сэм Шэпард" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%AE_%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A1" title="सैम शेपर्ड – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="सैम शेपर्ड" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC_%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%BF%D1%8A%D1%80%D0%B4" title="Сам Шепърд – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Сам Шепърд" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard" title="Sam Shepard – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Sam Shepard" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard" title="Sam Shepard – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Sam Shepard" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard" title="Sam Shepard – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Sam Shepard" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard" title="Sam Shepard – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Sam Shepard" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard" title="Sam Shepard – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Sam Shepard" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%B1%CE%BC_%CE%A3%CE%AD%CF%80%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%BD%CF%84" title="Σαμ Σέπαρντ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Σαμ Σέπαρντ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard" title="Sam Shepard – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Sam Shepard" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard" title="Sam Shepard – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Sam Shepard" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard" title="Sam Shepard – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Sam Shepard" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%85_%D8%B4%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%AF" title="سم شپرد – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="سم شپرد" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard" title="Sam Shepard – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Sam Shepard" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard" title="Sam Shepard – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Sam Shepard" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%83%98_%EC%85%B0%ED%8D%BC%EB%93%9C" title="샘 셰퍼드 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="샘 셰퍼드" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%A5%D5%B4_%D5%87%D5%A5%D6%83%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A4" title="Սեմ Շեփարդ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Սեմ Շեփարդ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%AE_%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A1" title="सैम शेपर्ड – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="सैम शेपर्ड" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard" title="Sam Shepard – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Sam Shepard" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard" title="Sam Shepard – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Sam Shepard" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%9D_%D7%A9%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%93" title="סם שפרד – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="סם שפרד" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%94%E1%83%9B_%E1%83%A8%E1%83%94%E1%83%9E%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%93%E1%83%98" title="სემ შეპარდი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="სემ შეპარდი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard" title="Sam Shepard – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Sam Shepard" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sems_%C5%A0epards" title="Sems Šepards – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Sems Šepards" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard" title="Sam Shepard – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Sam Shepard" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard" title="Sam Shepard – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Sam Shepard" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard" title="Sam Shepard – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Sam Shepard" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF" title="سام شيبارد – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="سام شيبارد" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard" title="Sam Shepard – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Sam Shepard" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89" title="サム・シェパード – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="サム・シェパード" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard" title="Sam Shepard – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Sam Shepard" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%BE%D8%B1%DA%88" title="سام شیپرڈ – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="سام شیپرڈ" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard" title="Sam Shepard – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Sam Shepard" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard" title="Sam Shepard – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Sam Shepard" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard" title="Sam Shepard – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Sam Shepard" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard" title="Sam Shepard – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Sam Shepard" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a 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nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">American playwright and actor (1943–2017)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other people with similar names, see <a href="/wiki/Sam_Shepard_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Sam Shepard (disambiguation)">Sam Shepard (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output 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biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Sam Shepard</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Sam_Shepard_Stealth_cropped.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Sam_Shepard_Stealth_cropped.JPG/220px-Sam_Shepard_Stealth_cropped.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="304" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Sam_Shepard_Stealth_cropped.JPG 1.5x" data-file-width="308" data-file-height="425" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Shepard in 2004</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Samuel Shepard Rogers III</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1943-11-05</span>)</span>November 5, 1943<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Fort_Sheridan,_Illinois" title="Fort Sheridan, Illinois">Fort Sheridan, Illinois</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">July 27, 2017<span style="display:none">(2017-07-27)</span> (aged 73)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Midway,_Kentucky" title="Midway, Kentucky">Midway, Kentucky</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mt._San_Antonio_College" title="Mt. San Antonio College">Mt. San Antonio College</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupations</th><td class="infobox-data role"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li:last-child::after{content:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <ul><li>Playwright</li> <li>actor</li> <li>director</li> <li>screenwriter</li> <li>author</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1963–2017</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Works</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sam_Shepard_filmography" title="Sam Shepard filmography">Filmography</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/O-Lan_Jones" title="O-Lan Jones">O-Lan Jones</a></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1969; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1984)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Partner</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jessica_Lange" title="Jessica Lange">Jessica Lange</a> (1982–2009)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">3</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>See <a href="/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Sam_Shepard" title="List of awards and nominations received by Sam Shepard">full list</a></i></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Signature</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="infobox-signature skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sam_SHEPARD_signature.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Sam_SHEPARD_signature.png/150px-Sam_SHEPARD_signature.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Sam_SHEPARD_signature.png/225px-Sam_SHEPARD_signature.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Sam_SHEPARD_signature.png/300px-Sam_SHEPARD_signature.png 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="470" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Samuel Shepard Rogers III</b> (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, and author whose career spanned half a century.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. He won 10 <a href="/wiki/Obie_Award" title="Obie Award">Obie Awards</a> for writing and directing, the most by any writer or director. Shepard received the <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Drama" title="Pulitzer Prize for Drama">Pulitzer Prize for Drama</a> in 1979 for his play <i><a href="/wiki/Buried_Child" title="Buried Child">Buried Child</a></i> and was nominated for an <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actor" title="Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor">Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor</a> for his portrayal of pilot <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Yeager" title="Chuck Yeager">Chuck Yeager</a> in the 1983 film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_(film)" title="The Right Stuff (film)">The Right Stuff</a></i>. He received the <a href="/wiki/PEN/Laura_Pels_Theater_Award" title="PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award">PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award</a> as a master American dramatist in 2009. <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_(magazine)" title="New York (magazine)">New York</a></i> magazine described Shepard as "the greatest American playwright of his generation."<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Shepard's plays are known for their bleak, poetic, surrealist elements, <a href="/wiki/Black_comedy" title="Black comedy">black comedy</a>, and rootless characters living on the outskirts of American society.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His style evolved from the absurdism of his early <a href="/wiki/Off-Off-Broadway" class="mw-redirect" title="Off-Off-Broadway">off-off-Broadway</a> work to the realism of later plays like <i>Buried Child</i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Curse_of_the_Starving_Class" title="Curse of the Starving Class">Curse of the Starving Class</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Shepard&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sam Shepard was born on November 5, 1943, in the Chicago suburb of <a href="/wiki/Fort_Sheridan,_Illinois" title="Fort Sheridan, Illinois">Fort Sheridan, Illinois</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TimesObit_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TimesObit-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was named Samuel Shepard Rogers III after his father, Samuel Shepard Rogers Jr. (1917–1984),<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but was called Steve Rogers.<sup id="cite_ref-bloom_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloom-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His father was a teacher and farmer who served in the United States Army Air Forces as a <a href="/wiki/Bomber" title="Bomber">bomber</a> pilot during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. Shepard characterized his father as "a drinking man, a dedicated alcoholic".<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His mother, Jane Elaine (née Schook; 1917–1994), was a teacher and a native of Chicago.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Shepard grew up in southern California. He worked on a <a href="/wiki/Ranch" title="Ranch">ranch</a> as a teenager. After graduating from <a href="/wiki/Duarte_High_School" title="Duarte High School">Duarte High School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Duarte,_California" title="Duarte, California">Duarte, California</a>, in 1961, he briefly studied <a href="/wiki/Animal_husbandry" title="Animal husbandry">animal husbandry</a> at nearby <a href="/wiki/Mt._San_Antonio_College" title="Mt. San Antonio College">Mt. San Antonio College</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While at college, Shepard became enamored of <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Beckett" title="Samuel Beckett">Samuel Beckett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Abstract_expressionism" title="Abstract expressionism">abstract expressionism</a>. He dropped out to join the Bishop's Company, a touring <a href="/wiki/Repertory_theatre" title="Repertory theatre">repertory group</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Shepard&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Writing">Writing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Shepard&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Writing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sam_Shepard.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Sam_Shepard.jpg/220px-Sam_Shepard.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="280" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Sam_Shepard.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="246" data-file-height="313" /></a><figcaption>Shepard at age 21</figcaption></figure> <p>Shepard moved to New York City in 1963 and found work as a busboy at the <a href="/wiki/Village_Gate" title="Village Gate">Village Gate</a> nightclub. The following year, the Village Gate's head waiter, Ralph Cook, founded the experimental stage company <a href="/wiki/Theatre_Genesis" title="Theatre Genesis">Theater Genesis</a>, housed at <a href="/wiki/St._Mark%27s_Church_in-the-Bowery" title="St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery">St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery</a> in Manhattan. Two of Shepard's earliest <a href="/wiki/One-act_play" title="One-act play">one-act plays</a>, <i>The Rock Garden</i> and <i>Cowboys</i>, debuted at Theater Genesis in October 1964. It was around this time that he adopted the professional name Sam Shepard.<sup id="cite_ref-Botting_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Botting-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1965, Shepard's one-act plays <i>Dog</i> and <i>The Rocking Chair</i> were produced at <a href="/wiki/La_MaMa_Experimental_Theatre_Club" title="La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club">La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These were the first of many productions of Shepard's work at La MaMa during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. In 1967, <a href="/wiki/Tom_O%27Horgan" title="Tom O'Horgan">Tom O'Horgan</a> directed Shepard's <i>Melodrama Play</i> alongside <a href="/wiki/Leonard_Melfi" title="Leonard Melfi">Leonard Melfi</a>'s <i>Times Square</i> and <a href="/wiki/Rochelle_Owens" title="Rochelle Owens">Rochelle Owens</a>' <i>Futz</i> at La MaMa.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1969, <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Bleckner" title="Jeff Bleckner">Jeff Bleckner</a> directed Shepard's play <i>The Unseen Hand</i> at La MaMa.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bleckner then directed <i>The Unseen Hand</i> alongside <i>Forensic and the Navigators</i> at the nearby <a href="/wiki/Astor_Place_Theatre" title="Astor Place Theatre">Astor Place Theatre</a> in 1970.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Shepard's play <i>Shaved Splits</i> was directed at La MaMa in 1970 by Bill Hart.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Seth Allen directed <i>Melodrama Play</i> at La MaMa the following year.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1981, Tony Barsha directed <i>The Unseen Hand</i> at La MaMa. The production then transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Provincetown_Playhouse" title="Provincetown Playhouse">Provincetown Playhouse</a> and ran for over 100 performances.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Syracuse_Stage" title="Syracuse Stage">Syracuse Stage</a> co-produced <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tooth_of_Crime" title="The Tooth of Crime">The Tooth of Crime</a></i> at La MaMa in 1983.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also in 1983, the Overtone Theatre and New Writers at the Westside co-produced Shepard's plays <i>Superstitions</i> and <i>The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His Wife</i> at La MaMa.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/John_Densmore" title="John Densmore">John Densmore</a> performed in his own play <i>Skins</i> and Shepard and <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Chaikin" title="Joseph Chaikin">Joseph Chaikin</a>'s play <i>Tongues</i>, directed as a <a href="/wiki/Double_bill" class="mw-redirect" title="Double bill">double bill</a> by Tony Abatemarco, at La MaMa in 1984.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nicholas Swyrydenko directed a production of <i><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_a_Horse_Dreamer" title="Geography of a Horse Dreamer">Geography of a Horse Dreamer</a></i> at La MaMa in 1985.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Several of Shepard's early plays, including <i>Red Cross</i> (1966) and <i><a href="/wiki/La_Turista" title="La Turista">La Turista</a></i> (1967), were directed by <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Levy" title="Jacques Levy">Jacques Levy</a>. A patron of the <a href="/wiki/Hotel_Chelsea" title="Hotel Chelsea">Chelsea Hotel</a> scene, he also contributed to <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Tynan" title="Kenneth Tynan">Kenneth Tynan</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Oh!_Calcutta!" title="Oh! Calcutta!">Oh! Calcutta!</a></i> (1969) and drummed sporadically from 1967 through 1971 with the band <a href="/wiki/The_Holy_Modal_Rounders" title="The Holy Modal Rounders">The Holy Modal Rounders</a>, appearing on their albums <i><a href="/wiki/Indian_War_Whoop" title="Indian War Whoop">Indian War Whoop</a></i> (1967) and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Moray_Eels_Eat_The_Holy_Modal_Rounders" title="The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders">The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders</a></i> (1968). After winning six <a href="/wiki/Obie_Award" title="Obie Award">Obie Awards</a> between 1966 and 1968, Shepard emerged as a screenwriter with <a href="/wiki/Robert_Frank" title="Robert Frank">Robert Frank</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Me_and_My_Brother_(film)" title="Me and My Brother (film)">Me and My Brother</a></i> (1968) and <a href="/wiki/Michelangelo_Antonioni" title="Michelangelo Antonioni">Michelangelo Antonioni</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Zabriskie_Point_(film)" title="Zabriskie Point (film)">Zabriskie Point</a></i> (1970). </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Cowboy_Mouth_(play)" title="Cowboy Mouth (play)">Cowboy Mouth</a></i>, a collaboration with his then-lover <a href="/wiki/Patti_Smith" title="Patti Smith">Patti Smith</a>, was staged at <a href="/wiki/The_American_Place_Theatre" title="The American Place Theatre">The American Place Theatre</a> in April 1971, providing early exposure for Smith, who would become a well-known musician. The story and characters in <i>Cowboy Mouth</i> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Shortly thereafter, Shepard relocated with his wife and son to London. While in London, he immersed himself in the study of <a href="/wiki/G.I._Gurdjieff" class="mw-redirect" title="G.I. Gurdjieff">G.I. Gurdjieff</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Fourth_Way" title="Fourth Way">Fourth Way</a>, 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 <a href="/wiki/Appaloosa" title="Appaloosa">appaloosa</a> named Cody.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shepard continued to write plays and served for a semester as Regents' Professor of Drama at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Davis" title="University of California, Davis">University of California, Davis</a>. </p><p>Shepard accompanied <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Rolling_Thunder_Revue" title="Rolling Thunder Revue">Rolling Thunder Revue</a> of 1975 as the screenwriter for <i><a href="/wiki/Renaldo_and_Clara" title="Renaldo and Clara">Renaldo and Clara</a></i> that emerged from the tour. However, because much of the film was improvised, Shepard's work was seldom used. <i>Rolling Thunder Logbook</i>, his diary of the tour, was published in 1978. A decade later, Dylan and Shepard co-wrote the 11-minute song "<a href="/wiki/Brownsville_Girl" title="Brownsville Girl">Brownsville Girl</a>", included on Dylan's 1986 album <i><a href="/wiki/Knocked_Out_Loaded" title="Knocked Out Loaded">Knocked Out Loaded</a></i> and on later compilations. </p><p>In 1975, Shepard was named <a href="/wiki/Artist-in-residence" title="Artist-in-residence">playwright-in-residence</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Magic_Theatre" title="Magic Theatre">Magic Theatre</a> in San Francisco, where he created many of his notable works, including his <i><a href="/wiki/Family_Trilogy" title="Family Trilogy">Family Trilogy</a></i>. One of the plays in the trilogy, <i><a href="/wiki/Buried_Child" title="Buried Child">Buried Child</a></i> (1978), won the <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize">Pulitzer Prize</a>, and was nominated for five <a href="/wiki/Tony_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Tony Award">Tony Awards</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This marked a major turning point in his career, heralding some of his best-known work, including <i><a href="/wiki/True_West_(play)" title="True West (play)">True West</a></i> (1980), <i><a href="/wiki/Fool_for_Love_(play)" title="Fool for Love (play)">Fool for Love</a></i> (1983), and <i><a href="/wiki/A_Lie_of_the_Mind" title="A Lie of the Mind">A Lie of the Mind</a></i> (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, <i>Buried Child</i> saw Shepard stake a claim to the psychological terrain of classic American theater. <i>True West</i> and <i>Fool for Love</i> were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc.com_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc.com-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some critics have expanded the trilogy to a quintet, including <i>Fool for Love</i> and <i>A Lie of the Mind</i>. Shepard won a record-setting ten <a href="/wiki/Obie_Award" title="Obie Award">Obie Awards</a> for writing and directing between 1966 and 1984. </p><p>In 2010, <i>A Lie of the Mind</i> was revived in New York at the same time as Shepard's new play <i>Ages of the Moon</i> opened there.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 <a href="/wiki/Porsche" title="Porsche">Porsche</a>. It's sleek, it does exactly what you want it to do, and it can speed up but also shows off great brakes."<sup id="cite_ref-NYT02_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT02-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The revival and the new play also coincided with the publication of Shepard's collection <i>Day out of Days: Stories</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The book includes "short stories, poems and narrative sketches... that developed from dozens of leather-bound notebooks [Shepard] carried with him over the years."<sup id="cite_ref-NYT02_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT02-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Acting">Acting</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Shepard&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Acting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Shepard began his film acting career when cast in a major role as the land baron in <a href="/wiki/Terrence_Malick" title="Terrence Malick">Terrence Malick</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Days_of_Heaven" title="Days of Heaven">Days of Heaven</a></i> (1978), opposite <a href="/wiki/Richard_Gere" title="Richard Gere">Richard Gere</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brooke_Adams_(actress)" title="Brooke Adams (actress)">Brooke Adams</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc.com_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc.com-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This led to other film roles, including that of Cal, <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Burstyn" title="Ellen Burstyn">Ellen Burstyn</a>'s character's love interest in <i><a href="/wiki/Resurrection_(1980_film)" title="Resurrection (1980 film)">Resurrection</a></i> (1980), and, most notably, Shepard's portrayal of <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Yeager" title="Chuck Yeager">Chuck Yeager</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_(film)" title="The Right Stuff (film)">The Right Stuff</a></i> (1983). The latter performance earned Shepard an Academy Award nomination for <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actor" title="Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor">Best Supporting Actor</a>. By 1986, <i><a href="/wiki/Fool_for_Love_(1985_film)" title="Fool for Love (1985 film)">Fool for Love</a></i> was adapted by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Altman" title="Robert Altman">Robert Altman</a> with Shepard in the lead role; <i>A Lie of the Mind</i> was being performed <a href="/wiki/Off_Broadway" class="mw-redirect" title="Off Broadway">Off Broadway</a> (with <a href="/wiki/Harvey_Keitel" title="Harvey Keitel">Harvey Keitel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Geraldine_Page" title="Geraldine Page">Geraldine Page</a>); and Shepard was working steadily as a film actor. Together, these achievements put him on the cover of <i>Newsweek</i>. </p><p>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 <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters" title="American Academy of Arts and Letters">American Academy of Arts and Letters</a> in 1986, and was elected a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> in 1986.<sup id="cite_ref-AAAS_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AAAS-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2000, Shepard demonstrated his gratitude to the Magic Theatre by staging <i><a href="/wiki/The_Late_Henry_Moss" class="mw-redirect" title="The Late Henry Moss">The Late Henry Moss</a></i> as a benefit for the theater, in San Francisco. The cast included <a href="/wiki/Nick_Nolte" title="Nick Nolte">Nick Nolte</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sean_Penn" title="Sean Penn">Sean Penn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Woody_Harrelson" title="Woody Harrelson">Woody Harrelson</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Cheech_Marin" title="Cheech Marin">Cheech Marin</a>. The limited, three-month run was sold out. In 2001, Shepard played General <a href="/wiki/William_F._Garrison" title="William F. Garrison">William F. Garrison</a> in the film <i><a href="/wiki/Black_Hawk_Down_(film)" title="Black Hawk Down (film)">Black Hawk Down</a></i>. Although he was cast in a supporting role, Shepard enjoyed renewed interest in his talent for screen acting. </p><p>Shepard performed <a href="/wiki/Spalding_Gray" title="Spalding Gray">Spalding Gray</a>'s final monologue <i>Life Interrupted</i> for the audiobook version, released in 2006. In 2007, Shepard contributed banjo to Patti Smith's cover of <a href="/wiki/Nirvana_(band)" title="Nirvana (band)">Nirvana</a>'s song "<a href="/wiki/Smells_Like_Teen_Spirit" title="Smells Like Teen Spirit">Smells Like Teen Spirit</a>" on her album <i><a href="/wiki/Twelve_(Patti_Smith_album)" title="Twelve (Patti Smith album)">Twelve</a></i>. Although many artists had an influence on Shepard's work, one of the more significant was <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Chaikin" title="Joseph Chaikin">Joseph Chaikin</a>, a veteran of <a href="/wiki/The_Living_Theatre" title="The Living Theatre">The Living Theatre</a> and founder of <a href="/wiki/The_Open_Theater" title="The Open Theater">The Open Theater</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Botting_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Botting-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The two worked together on various projects, and Shepard has stated that Chaikin was a valuable mentor. </p><p>In 2011, Shepard starred in the film <i><a href="/wiki/Blackthorn_(film)" title="Blackthorn (film)">Blackthorn</a></i>. His final film appearance is <i><a href="/wiki/Never_Here" title="Never Here">Never Here</a></i>, which premiered in June 2017 but had been filmed in 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shepard also appeared in the television series <i><a href="/wiki/Bloodline_(TV_series)" title="Bloodline (TV series)">Bloodline</a></i> from 2014 to 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Directing">Directing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Shepard&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Directing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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 <a href="/wiki/Theatre_Genesis" title="Theatre Genesis">Theatre Genesis</a>. Later, while living at the Flying Y Ranch, Shepard formed a successful playwright-director relationship with <a href="/wiki/Robert_Woodruff_(director)" title="Robert Woodruff (director)">Robert Woodruff</a>, who directed the premiere of <i><a href="/wiki/Buried_Child" title="Buried Child">Buried Child</a></i> (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. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Shepard&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When Shepard first arrived in New York City, he roomed with Charlie Mingus III, a friend from Duarte High School and the son of jazz musician <a href="/wiki/Charles_Mingus" title="Charles Mingus">Charles Mingus</a>. Shepard then lived with actress Joyce Aaron. </p><p>Between 1967 and 1970 he was part of the New York psychedelic rock group <a href="/wiki/The_Holy_Modal_Rounders" title="The Holy Modal Rounders">The Holy Modal Rounders</a> as drummer, participating in the recording of two albums of the band <a href="/wiki/Indian_War_Whoop" title="Indian War Whoop">Indian War Whoop</a> released in 1967 and <a href="/wiki/The_Moray_Eels_Eat_The_Holy_Modal_Rounders" title="The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders">The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders</a> in 1968. </p><p>From 1969 to 1984, he was married to actress <a href="/wiki/O-Lan_Jones" title="O-Lan Jones">O-Lan Jones</a>, with whom he had one son, Jesse Mojo Shepard (b. 1971). <sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1970 to 1971, Shepard was involved in an extramarital affair with musician <a href="/wiki/Patti_Smith" title="Patti Smith">Patti Smith</a>, who remained unaware of his identity as a multiple <a href="/wiki/Obie_Award" title="Obie Award">Obie Award</a>-winning playwright until it was divulged to her by <a href="/wiki/Jackie_Curtis" title="Jackie Curtis">Jackie Curtis</a>. Smith said: "Me and his wife still even liked each other. I mean, it wasn't like committing adultery in the suburbs or something."<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Canadian singer-songwriter <a href="/wiki/Joni_Mitchell" title="Joni Mitchell">Joni Mitchell</a> wrote two songs about her affairs with Shepard during Bob Dylan's <a href="/wiki/Rolling_Thunder_Revue" title="Rolling Thunder Revue">Rolling Thunder Revue</a> tour of 1975. In "<a href="/wiki/Coyote_(song)" title="Coyote (song)">Coyote</a>", from her eighth studio album <i><a href="/wiki/Hejira_(album)" title="Hejira (album)">Hejira</a></i>, 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."<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meanwhile, in "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter", written during the same tour, Mitchell referenced the closeness between their birthdays, calling them "twins of spirit".<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Shepard met actress <a href="/wiki/Jessica_Lange" title="Jessica Lange">Jessica Lange</a> on the set of the 1982 film <i><a href="/wiki/Frances_(film)" title="Frances (film)">Frances</a></i>, in which they were both acting. He moved in with her in 1983, and they were together for 27 years; they separated in 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They had two children, Hannah Jane Shepard (b. 1986) and Samuel Walker Shepard (b. 1987). In 2003, Shepard's elder son, Jesse, wrote a book of short stories, and Shepard appeared with him at a reading at <a href="/wiki/City_Lights_Bookstore" title="City Lights Bookstore">City Lights Bookstore</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014 and 2015, Shepard dated actress <a href="/wiki/Mia_Kirshner" title="Mia Kirshner">Mia Kirshner</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After a turbulent trip on an airliner returning from Mexico in the 1960s, he apparently vowed never to fly again.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 <i><a href="/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_(film)" title="The Right Stuff (film)">The Right Stuff</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shepard cited his fear of flying as a source for a character in his 1966 play <i><a href="/wiki/Icarus%27s_Mother" title="Icarus's Mother">Icarus's Mother</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His character went through an airliner crash in the film <i><a href="/wiki/Voyager_(film)" title="Voyager (film)">Voyager</a></i>. </p><p>In the early morning hours of January 3, 2009, Shepard was arrested and charged with speeding and <a href="/wiki/Drunk_driving" title="Drunk driving">drunk driving</a> in <a href="/wiki/Normal,_Illinois" title="Normal, Illinois">Normal, Illinois</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He pleaded guilty to both charges on February 11, 2009, and was sentenced to 24 months probation, alcohol education classes, and 100 hours of <a href="/wiki/Community_service" title="Community service">community service</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On May 25, 2015, Shepard was arrested again in <a href="/wiki/Santa_Fe,_New_Mexico" title="Santa Fe, New Mexico">Santa Fe, New Mexico</a>, for aggravated drunk driving.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Those charges were later dismissed as having no likelihood of conviction at trial.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His 50-year friendship with Johnny Dark, stepfather to O-Lan Jones, was the subject of the 2013 documentary <i>Shepard & Dark</i> by Treva Wurmfeld.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A collection of Shepard and Dark's correspondence, <i>Two Prospectors</i>, was also published that year.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Shepard&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Shepard died on July 27, 2017, at his home in <a href="/wiki/Midway,_Kentucky" title="Midway, Kentucky">Midway, Kentucky</a>, aged 73, from complications of <a href="/wiki/Amyotrophic_lateral_sclerosis" class="mw-redirect" title="Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis">amyotrophic lateral sclerosis</a> (ALS).<sup id="cite_ref-TimesObit_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TimesObit-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LATimes_-death_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LATimes_-death-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Patti Smith paid homage to their long collaboration in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fellow actor <a href="/wiki/Matthew_McConaughey" title="Matthew McConaughey">Matthew McConaughey</a>, who had co-starred with Shepard in <i><a href="/wiki/Mud_(2012_film)" title="Mud (2012 film)">Mud</a></i>, 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."<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Archives">Archives</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Shepard&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Archives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sam Shepard's papers are split between the <a href="/wiki/Wittliff_collections" class="mw-redirect" title="Wittliff collections">Wittliff Collections</a> of Southwestern Writers at <a href="/wiki/Texas_State_University" title="Texas State University">Texas State University</a>, comprising 27 boxes (13 linear feet)<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Harry_Ransom_Center" title="Harry Ransom Center">Harry Ransom Center</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Austin" title="University of Texas at Austin">University of Texas at Austin</a>, comprising 30 document boxes (12.6 linear feet).<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Shepard&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Plays">Plays</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Shepard&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Plays"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ul><li>1964: <i>Cowboys</i></li> <li>1964: <i>The Rock Garden</i></li> <li>1964: <i>Up to Thursday</i><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1965: <i>Chicago</i></li> <li>1965: <i><a href="/wiki/Icarus%27s_Mother" title="Icarus's Mother">Icarus's Mother</a></i></li> <li>1965: <i>4-H Club</i></li> <li>1966: <i>Red Cross</i></li> <li>1966: <i>Fourteen Hundred Thousand</i></li> <li>1967: <i><a href="/wiki/La_Turista" title="La Turista">La Turista</a></i></li> <li>1967: <i>Cowboys #2</i></li> <li>1967: <i>Forensic & the Navigators</i></li> <li>1969: <i>The Unseen Hand</i></li> <li>1969: <i><a href="/wiki/Oh!_Calcutta!" title="Oh! Calcutta!">Oh! Calcutta!</a></i> <small>(contributed sketches)</small></li> <li>1970: <i>The Holy Ghostly</i></li> <li>1970: <i>Operation Sidewinder</i></li> <li>1970: <i>Shaved Splits</i></li> <li>1971: <i>Mad Dog Blues</i></li> <li>1971: <i>Back Bog Beast Bait</i></li> <li>1971: <i><a href="/wiki/Cowboy_Mouth_(play)" title="Cowboy Mouth (play)">Cowboy Mouth</a></i> <small>(with <a href="/wiki/Patti_Smith" title="Patti Smith">Patti Smith</a>)</small></li> <li>1972: <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tooth_of_Crime" title="The Tooth of Crime">The Tooth of Crime</a></i></li> <li>1974: <i><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_a_Horse_Dreamer" title="Geography of a Horse Dreamer">Geography of a Horse Dreamer</a></i></li> <li>1974: <i>Little Ocean</i></li> <li>1975: <i><a href="/wiki/Killer%27s_Head" title="Killer's Head">Killer's Head</a></i></li> <li>1975: <i><a href="/wiki/Action_(play)" title="Action (play)">Action</a></i></li> <li>1976: <i><a href="/wiki/Angel_City_(play)" title="Angel City (play)">Angel City</a></i></li> <li>1976: <i><a href="/wiki/Suicide_in_B_Flat" class="mw-redirect" title="Suicide in B Flat">Suicide in B Flat</a></i></li> <li>1977: <i>Inacoma</i></li> <li>1978: <i><a href="/wiki/Curse_of_the_Starving_Class" title="Curse of the Starving Class">Curse of the Starving Class</a></i></li> <li>1978: <i><a href="/wiki/Buried_Child" title="Buried Child">Buried Child</a></i></li> <li>1978: <i><a href="/wiki/Tongues_(play)" title="Tongues (play)">Tongues</a></i> <small>(with <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Chaikin" title="Joseph Chaikin">Joseph Chaikin</a>)</small></li> <li>1979: <i>Seduced: a Play in Two Acts</i></li> <li>1980: <i><a href="/wiki/True_West_(play)" title="True West (play)">True West</a></i></li> <li>1981: <i><a href="/wiki/Savage/Love" title="Savage/Love">Savage/Love</a></i> <small>(with Joseph Chaikin)</small></li> <li>1983: <i><a href="/wiki/Fool_for_Love_(play)" title="Fool for Love (play)">Fool for Love</a></i></li> <li>1985: <i><a href="/wiki/A_Lie_of_the_Mind" title="A Lie of the Mind">A Lie of the Mind</a></i></li> <li>1987: <i>A Short Life of Trouble</i></li> <li>1987: <i>The War in Heaven (Angel's Monologue)</i> <small>(with Joseph Chaikin and Rick Harris)</small></li> <li>1991: <i>States of Shock</i></li> <li>1993: <i><a href="/wiki/Simpatico_(play)" title="Simpatico (play)">Simpatico</a></i></li> <li>1996: <i>When the World Was Green (A Chef's Fable)</i> <small>(with Joseph Chaikin)</small></li> <li>1996: <i>Tooth of Crime (Second Dance)</i></li> <li>1998: <i>Eyes for Consuela</i></li> <li>2000: <i>The Late Henry Moss</i></li> <li>2004: <i><a href="/wiki/The_God_of_Hell" title="The God of Hell">The God of Hell</a></i></li> <li>2007: <i><a href="/wiki/Kicking_a_Dead_Horse" title="Kicking a Dead Horse">Kicking a Dead Horse</a></i></li> <li>2009: <i>Ages of the Moon</i></li> <li>2012: <i>Heartless</i></li> <li>2014: <i>A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations)</i></li></ul></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Collections">Collections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Shepard&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1973: <i>Hawk Moon</i>, <a href="/wiki/Black_Sparrow_Press" title="Black Sparrow Press">Black Sparrow Press</a>; <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-933826-23-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-933826-23-0">0-933826-23-0</a></li> <li>1983: <i>Motel Chronicles</i>, <a href="/wiki/City_Lights_Bookstore" title="City Lights Bookstore">City Lights</a>; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-87286-143-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-87286-143-0">0-87286-143-0</a></li> <li>1984: <i>Seven Plays</i>, <a href="/wiki/Dial_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="Dial Press">Dial Press</a>, 368 pages; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-553-34611-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-553-34611-3">0-553-34611-3</a></li> <li>1984: <i>Fool for Love and Other Plays</i>, <a href="/wiki/Bantam_Books" title="Bantam Books">Bantam Books</a>, 320 pages; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-553-34590-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-553-34590-7">0-553-34590-7</a></li> <li>1996: <i>The Unseen Hand: and Other Plays</i>, <a href="/wiki/Vintage_Books" title="Vintage Books">Vintage Books</a>, 400 pages; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-679-76789-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-679-76789-4">0-679-76789-4</a></li> <li>1996: <i>Cruising Paradise</i>, <a href="/wiki/Vintage_Books" title="Vintage Books">Vintage Books</a>, 255 pages; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-679-74217-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-679-74217-4">0-679-74217-4</a></li> <li>2003: <i>Great Dream of Heaven</i>, Vintage Books, 160 pages; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-375-70452-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-375-70452-3">0-375-70452-3</a></li> <li>2004: <i>Rolling Thunder Logbook</i>, <a href="/wiki/Da_Capo_Press" title="Da Capo Press">Da Capo Press</a>, 176 pages (reissue); <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-306-81371-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-306-81371-8">0-306-81371-8</a></li> <li>2004: <i>Day Out of Days: Stories</i>, <a href="/wiki/Alfred_A._Knopf" title="Alfred A. Knopf">Knopf</a>, 304 pages; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-307-26540-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-307-26540-1">978-0-307-26540-1</a></li> <li>2013: <i>Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark</i>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Texas_Press" title="University of Texas Press">University of Texas Press</a>, 400 pages; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-292-76196-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-292-76196-4">978-0-292-76196-4</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novels">Novels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Shepard&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>2017: <i>The One Inside</i>, <a href="/wiki/Alfred_A._Knopf" title="Alfred A. Knopf">Knopf</a>, 172 pages; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-451-49458-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-451-49458-0">978-0-451-49458-0</a></li> <li>2017: <i>Spy of the First Person</i>, Knopf, 96 pages (published posthumously); <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-525-52156-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-525-52156-3">978-0-525-52156-3</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Filmography">Filmography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Shepard&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Filmography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Sam_Shepard_filmography" title="Sam Shepard filmography">Sam Shepard filmography</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_nominations">Awards and nominations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Shepard&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Awards and nominations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Sam_Shepard" title="List of awards and nominations received by Sam Shepard">List of awards and nominations received by Sam Shepard</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Shepard&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters_Department_of_Literature" title="List of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Literature">List of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_playwrights_from_the_United_States" title="List of playwrights from the United States">List of playwrights from the United States</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Shepard&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFShewey1997" class="citation book cs1">Shewey, Don (1997). <i>Sam Shepard</i>. Perseus Books Group. p. 13. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-30680-770-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-30680-770-1"><bdi>978-0-30680-770-1</bdi></a>. <q>He was born Samuel Shepard Rogers III and called Steve, although if he were royalty his name would have been Samuel Shepard Rogers VII.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Sam+Shepard&rft.pages=13&rft.pub=Perseus+Books+Group&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=978-0-30680-770-1&rft.aulast=Shewey&rft.aufirst=Don&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Shepard" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWetzsteon1984" class="citation web cs1">Wetzsteon, Ross (November 11, 1984). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=VuUCAAAAMBAJ&q=%22why+is+sam+shepard+virtually%22&pg=PA20">"The Genius of Sam Shepard"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_(magazine)" title="New York (magazine)">New York</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160503210715/https://books.google.com/books?id=VuUCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA20&lpg=PA20&dq=virtually%22&source=bl&ots=zPveS1eQD0&sig=7lUn5gKk1HufDLeDiyK9ZZbUI_U&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwieqc68x9DJAhVK4WMKHZfRBmsQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22why%20is%20sam%20shepard%20virtually%22&f=false">Archived</a> from the original on May 3, 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">December 9,</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=New+York&rft.atitle=The+Genius+of+Sam+Shepard&rft.date=1984-11-11&rft.aulast=Wetzsteon&rft.aufirst=Ross&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DVuUCAAAAMBAJ%26q%3D%2522why%2Bis%2Bsam%2Bshepard%2Bvirtually%2522%26pg%3DPA20&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Shepard" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ina.fr/video/I17212445/wim-wenders-a-propos-de-sam-shepard-video.html">"Wim Wenders à propos de Sam Shepard (Video)"</a> [Wim Wenders on Sam Shepard]. <i><a href="/wiki/Institut_national_de_l%27audiovisuel" title="Institut national de l'audiovisuel">Institut national de l'audiovisuel</a></i> (in French). May 2, 1984. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170819053823/http://www.ina.fr/video/I17212445/wim-wenders-a-propos-de-sam-shepard-video.html">Archived</a> from the original on August 19, 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">June 13,</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Institut+national+de+l%27audiovisuel&rft.atitle=Wim+Wenders+%C3%A0+propos+de+Sam+Shepard+%28Video%29&rft.date=1984-05-02&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ina.fr%2Fvideo%2FI17212445%2Fwim-wenders-a-propos-de-sam-shepard-video.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Shepard" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBloom2009" class="citation book cs1">Bloom, Harold (2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=T59milCjWBQC"><i>Harold Bloom's Major Dramatists: Sam Shepard</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Infobase_Publishing" class="mw-redirect" title="Infobase Publishing">Infobase Publishing</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-43811-646-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-43811-646-4"><bdi>978-1-43811-646-4</bdi></a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170730204911/http://www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu/research/a-z/shepard.html">Archived</a> from the original on July 30, 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">December 12,</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Harold+Bloom%27s+Major+Dramatists%3A+Sam+Shepard&rft.pub=Infobase+Publishing&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-1-43811-646-4&rft.aulast=Bloom&rft.aufirst=Harold&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DT59milCjWBQC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Shepard" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-TimesObit-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-TimesObit_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-TimesObit_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrantley2017" class="citation news cs1">Brantley, Ben (July 31, 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/theater/sam-shepard-dead.html">"Sam Shepard, Pulitzer-Winning Playwright and Actor, Is Dead at 73"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170731155033/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/theater/sam-shepard-dead.html">Archived</a> from the original on July 31, 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">June 13,</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Sam+Shepard%2C+Pulitzer-Winning+Playwright+and+Actor%2C+Is+Dead+at+73&rft.date=2017-07-31&rft.aulast=Brantley&rft.aufirst=Ben&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F07%2F31%2Ftheater%2Fsam-shepard-dead.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Shepard" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.geni.com/people/Samuel-Shepard-Rogers/6000000002804584695">Samuel Shepard Rogers, Jr., Sam Shepard's father</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-bloom-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-bloom_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBloom2009" class="citation book cs1">Bloom, Harold (2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=T59milCjWBQC&q=steve+rogers&pg=PA12"><i>Sam Shepard</i></a>. 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London. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170414082920/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2003/oct/11/theatre.music">Archived</a> from the original on April 14, 2017.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=The+write+stuff&rft.date=2003-10-11&rft.aulast=O%27Mahony&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fstage%2F2003%2Foct%2F11%2Ftheatre.music&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Shepard" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.filmreference.com/film/84/Sam-Shepard.html">"Sam Shepard biography"</a>. <i>Film Reference</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081202090556/http://www.filmreference.com/film/84/Sam-Shepard.html">Archived</a> from the original on December 2, 2008<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">December 14,</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Theatre+of+Protest+in+America&rft.pub=Harden+House&rft.date=1972&rft.aulast=Botting&rft.aufirst=Gary&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ftheatreofprotest0000bott&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Shepard" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.lamama.org/Detail/occurrences/147">"Production: 'Two One-Act Plays by Sam Shepard' (1965)"</a>. <i>La MaMa Archives Digital Collections</i>. 2015<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 29,</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=La+MaMa+Archives+Digital+Collections&rft.atitle=Production%3A+Unseen+Hand%2C+The+%281969%29&rft.date=2015&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fcatalog.lamama.org%2FDetail%2FOccurrences%2F634&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Shepard" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.lamama.org/Detail/Occurrences/635">"Production: Two By Sam Shepard (1970)"</a>. <i>La MaMa Archives Digital Collections</i>. 2015<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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February 11, 2009. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090213120024/http://www.tmz.com/2009/02/11/sam-shepard-guilty-of-very-drunken-driving/">Archived</a> from the original on February 13, 2009.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=TMZ&rft.atitle=Sam+Shepard+Guilty+of+Very+Drunken+Driving&rft.date=2009-02-11&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tmz.com%2F2009%2F02%2F11%2Fsam-shepard-guilty-of-very-drunken-driving%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Shepard" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMackie2015" class="citation magazine cs1">Mackie, Drew (May 26, 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.people.com/article/sam-shepard-drunk-driving-charges-santa-fe">"Actor/Playwright Sam Shepard Arrested on Drunk Driving Charges in Santa Fe"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/People_(magazine)" title="People (magazine)">People</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150527072436/http://www.people.com/article/sam-shepard-drunk-driving-charges-santa-fe">Archived</a> from the original on May 27, 2015.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=People&rft.atitle=Actor%2FPlaywright+Sam+Shepard+Arrested+on+Drunk+Driving+Charges+in+Santa+Fe&rft.date=2015-05-26&rft.aulast=Mackie&rft.aufirst=Drew&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.people.com%2Farticle%2Fsam-shepard-drunk-driving-charges-santa-fe&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Shepard" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCarrillo2015" class="citation news cs1">Carrillo, Edmundo (December 17, 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.abqjournal.com/692812/santa-fe-dwi-charge-against-playwrightactor-sam-shepard-dismissed.html">"Playwright Sam Shepard's DWI charge dismissed"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Albuquerque_Journal" title="Albuquerque Journal">Albuquerque Journal</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">April 24,</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Toronto+Star&rft.atitle=Shepard+%26+Dark%2C+a+testament+to+friendship%3A+review&rft.date=2013-03-07&rft.aulast=DeMara&rft.aufirst=Bruce&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thestar.com%2Fentertainment%2Fmovies%2F2013%2F03%2F07%2Fshepard_dark_a_testament_to_friendship_review.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Shepard" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFShepardDark2013" class="citation book cs1">Shepard, Sam; Dark, Johnny (November 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=iZ4AAQAAQBAJ&pg=PR6"><i>Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/University_of_Texas_Press" title="University of Texas Press">University of Texas Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-29275-422-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-29275-422-5"><bdi>978-0-29275-422-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Two+Prospectors%3A+The+Letters+of+Sam+Shepard+and+Johnny+Dark&rft.pub=University+of+Texas+Press&rft.date=2013-11&rft.isbn=978-0-29275-422-5&rft.aulast=Shepard&rft.aufirst=Sam&rft.au=Dark%2C+Johnny&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DiZ4AAQAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPR6&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Shepard" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-LATimes_-death-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-LATimes_-death_56-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHill2017" class="citation news cs1">Hill, Libby (July 31, 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-sam-shepard-20170731-story.html">"Sam Shepard, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, dies at 73"</a>. <i>Los Angeles Times</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170731230715/http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-sam-shepard-20170731-story.html">Archived</a> from the original on July 31, 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 1,</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Los+Angeles+Times&rft.atitle=Sam+Shepard%2C+Pulitzer+Prize-winning+playwright+and+Oscar-nominated+actor%2C+dies+at+73&rft.date=2017-07-31&rft.aulast=Hill&rft.aufirst=Libby&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Flocal%2Fobituaries%2Fla-me-sam-shepard-20170731-story.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Shepard" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-57">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDesta2017" class="citation magazine cs1">Desta, Yohana (July 31, 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/07/sam-shepard-obit">"Sam Shepard, Prolific Playwright and Actor, Dies at 73"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Vanity_Fair_(magazine)" title="Vanity Fair (magazine)">Vanity Fair</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 17,</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Vanity+Fair&rft.atitle=Sam+Shepard%2C+Prolific+Playwright+and+Actor%2C+Dies+at+73&rft.date=2017-07-31&rft.aulast=Desta&rft.aufirst=Yohana&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vanityfair.com%2Fhollywood%2F2017%2F07%2Fsam-shepard-obit&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Shepard" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-58">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmith2017" class="citation magazine cs1">Smith, Patti (August 1, 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/my-buddy-sam-shepard">"My Buddy"</a>. <i>The New Yorker</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 3,</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+Yorker&rft.atitle=My+Buddy&rft.date=2017-08-01&rft.aulast=Smith&rft.aufirst=Patti&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fculture%2Fculture-desk%2Fmy-buddy-sam-shepard&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Shepard" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-59">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRubin2017" class="citation magazine cs1">Rubin, Rebecca (August 1, 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://variety.com/2017/film/news/matthew-mcconaughey-sam-shepards-death-reactin-video-1202512693/">"Matthew McConaughey Learned About Sam Shepard's Death on Red Carpet"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Variety_(magazine)" title="Variety (magazine)">Variety</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Variety&rft.atitle=Matthew+McConaughey+Learned+About+Sam+Shepard%27s+Death+on+Red+Carpet&rft.date=2017-08-01&rft.aulast=Rubin&rft.aufirst=Rebecca&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fvariety.com%2F2017%2Ffilm%2Fnews%2Fmatthew-mcconaughey-sam-shepards-death-reactin-video-1202512693%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Shepard" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-60">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu/research/a-z/shepard.html">"Sam Shepard Papers, 1972–1999"</a>. <i>Texas State University – San Marcos</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170730204911/http://www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu/research/a-z/shepard.html">Archived</a> from the original on July 30, 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 2,</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Texas+State+University+%E2%80%93+San+Marcos&rft.atitle=Sam+Shepard+Papers%2C+1972%E2%80%931999&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu%2Fresearch%2Fa-z%2Fshepard.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Shepard" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-61">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00546">"Sam Shepard: An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Center"</a>. <i>University of Texas at Austin</i>. Processed by: Liz Murray (2011), Daniela Lozano (2012)<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 4,</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=University+of+Texas+at+Austin&rft.atitle=Sam+Shepard%3A+An+Inventory+of+His+Papers+at+the+Harry+Ransom+Center&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnorman.hrc.utexas.edu%2Ffasearch%2FfindingAid.cfm%3Feadid%3D00546&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Shepard" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_web" title="Template:Cite web">cite web</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: others (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_others" title="Category:CS1 maint: others">link</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-62">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWinters2017" class="citation book cs1">Winters, J.J. (2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=f-AREAAAQBAJ&pg=PT93"><i>Sam Shepard: A Life</i></a>. Catapult. p. 93. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-61902-984-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-61902-984-2"><bdi>978-1-61902-984-2</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 23,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Sam+Shepard%3A+A+Life&rft.pages=93&rft.pub=Catapult&rft.date=2017&rft.isbn=978-1-61902-984-2&rft.aulast=Winters&rft.aufirst=J.J.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Df-AREAAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPT93&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Shepard" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sam_Shepard&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCorrigan2015" class="citation news cs1">Corrigan, Michael (May 12, 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://atticusreview.org/cruising-paradise-with-sam-shepard/">"Cruising Paradise with Sam Shepard"</a>. <i>Atticus Review</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 4,</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Atticus+Review&rft.atitle=Cruising+Paradise+with+Sam+Shepard&rft.date=2015-05-12&rft.aulast=Corrigan&rft.aufirst=Michael&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fatticusreview.org%2Fcruising-paradise-with-sam-shepard%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Shepard" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Radavich, David. "Back to the (Plutonian) Midwest: Sam Shepard's <i>The God of Hell</i>". <i>New England Theatre Journal</i> 18 (2007): 95–108.</li> <li>Radavich, David. "Rabe, Mamet, Shepard, and Wilson: Mid-American Male Dramatists of the 1970s and '80s". <i>The Midwest Quarterly</i> XLVIII: 3 (Spring 2007): 342–58.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRyder_HoweMcCullochSimpson1997" class="citation journal cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol">Ryder Howe, Benjamin; McCulloch, Jeanne; Simpson, Mona (1997). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1281/the-art-of-theater-no-12-sam-shepard">"Sam Shepard, The Art of Theater No. 12"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Paris_Review" title="The Paris Review">The Paris Review</a></i>. Spring 1997 (142).</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Paris+Review&rft.atitle=Sam+Shepard%2C+The+Art+of+Theater+No.+12&rft.volume=Spring+1997&rft.issue=142&rft.date=1997&rft.aulast=Ryder+Howe&rft.aufirst=Benjamin&rft.au=McCulloch%2C+Jeanne&rft.au=Simpson%2C+Mona&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theparisreview.org%2Finterviews%2F1281%2Fthe-art-of-theater-no-12-sam-shepard&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Shepard" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFShewey1997" class="citation book cs1">Shewey, Don (1997). <i>Sam Shepard</i>. Cambridge, Massachusetts: <a href="/wiki/Da_Capo_Press" title="Da Capo Press">Da Capo Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-306-80770-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-306-80770-1"><bdi>978-0-306-80770-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Sam+Shepard&rft.place=Cambridge%2C+Massachusetts&rft.pub=Da+Capo+Press&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=978-0-306-80770-1&rft.aulast=Shewey&rft.aufirst=Don&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Shepard" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmith2019" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Patti_Smith" title="Patti Smith">Smith, Patti</a> (2019). <a href="/wiki/Year_of_the_Monkey_(book)" title="Year of the Monkey (book)"><i>Year of the Monkey</i></a>. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0525657682" title="Special:BookSources/978-0525657682"><bdi>978-0525657682</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Year+of+the+Monkey&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Alfred+A.+Knopf&rft.date=2019&rft.isbn=978-0525657682&rft.aulast=Smith&rft.aufirst=Patti&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Shepard" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWinters2017" class="citation book cs1">Winters, John (2017). <i>Sam Shepard: A Life</i>. Berkeley, California. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1619027084" title="Special:BookSources/978-1619027084"><bdi>978-1619027084</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/960836493">960836493</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Sam+Shepard%3A+A+Life&rft.place=Berkeley%2C+California&rft.date=2017&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F960836493&rft.isbn=978-1619027084&rft.aulast=Winters&rft.aufirst=John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASam+Shepard" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (<a 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</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Scripts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Me_and_My_Brother_(film)" title="Me and My Brother (film)">Me and My Brother</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Zabriskie_Point_(film)" title="Zabriskie Point (film)">Zabriskie Point</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Renaldo_and_Clara" title="Renaldo and Clara">Renaldo and Clara</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Paris,_Texas_(film)" title="Paris, Texas (film)">Paris, Texas</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Far_North_(1988_film)" title="Far North (1988 film)">Far North</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Silent_Tongue" title="Silent Tongue">Silent Tongue</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Don%27t_Come_Knocking" title="Don't Come Knocking">Don't Come Knocking</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">See also</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Family_Trilogy" title="Family Trilogy">Family Trilogy</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/O-Lan_Jones" title="O-Lan Jones">O-Lan Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessica_Lange" title="Jessica Lange">Jessica Lange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patti_Smith" title="Patti Smith">Patti Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brownsville_Girl" title="Brownsville Girl">Brownsville Girl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coyote_(song)" title="Coyote (song)">Coyote</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Pulitzer_Prize_for_Drama:_Authors37" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:PulitzerPrize_DramaAuthors" title="Template:PulitzerPrize DramaAuthors"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:PulitzerPrize_DramaAuthors" title="Template talk:PulitzerPrize DramaAuthors"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:PulitzerPrize_DramaAuthors" title="Special:EditPage/Template:PulitzerPrize DramaAuthors"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div 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(playwright)">George Kelly</a> (1926)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Green_(playwright)" title="Paul Green (playwright)">Paul Green</a> (1927)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eugene_O%27Neill" title="Eugene O'Neill">Eugene O'Neill</a> (1928)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elmer_Rice" title="Elmer Rice">Elmer Rice</a> (1929)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marc_Connelly" title="Marc Connelly">Marc Connelly</a> (1930)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susan_Glaspell" title="Susan Glaspell">Susan Glaspell</a> (1931)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_S._Kaufman" title="George S. Kaufman">George S. Kaufman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Morrie_Ryskind" title="Morrie Ryskind">Morrie Ryskind</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ira_Gershwin" title="Ira Gershwin">Ira Gershwin</a> (1932)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maxwell_Anderson" title="Maxwell Anderson">Maxwell Anderson</a> (1933)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Kingsley" title="Sidney Kingsley">Sidney Kingsley</a> (1934)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zoe_Akins" title="Zoe Akins">Zoe Akins</a> (1935)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_E._Sherwood" title="Robert E. Sherwood">Robert E. Sherwood</a> (1936)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moss_Hart" title="Moss Hart">Moss Hart</a> and <a href="/wiki/George_S._Kaufman" title="George S. Kaufman">George S. Kaufman</a> (1937)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thornton_Wilder" title="Thornton Wilder">Thornton Wilder</a> (1938)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_E._Sherwood" title="Robert E. Sherwood">Robert E. Sherwood</a> (1939)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Saroyan" title="William Saroyan">William Saroyan</a> (1940)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_E._Sherwood" title="Robert E. Sherwood">Robert E. Sherwood</a> (1941)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thornton_Wilder" title="Thornton Wilder">Thornton Wilder</a> (1943)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Chase_(playwright)" title="Mary Chase (playwright)">Mary Chase</a> (1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russel_Crouse" title="Russel Crouse">Russel Crouse</a> and <a href="/wiki/Howard_Lindsay" title="Howard Lindsay">Howard Lindsay</a> (1946)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Williams" title="Tennessee Williams">Tennessee Williams</a> (1948)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Miller" title="Arthur Miller">Arthur Miller</a> (1949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Rodgers" title="Richard Rodgers">Richard Rodgers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Hammerstein_II" title="Oscar Hammerstein II">Oscar Hammerstein II</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joshua_Logan" title="Joshua Logan">Joshua Logan</a> (1950)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Kramm" title="Joseph Kramm">Joseph Kramm</a> (1952)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Inge" title="William Inge">William Inge</a> (1953)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Patrick_(dramatist)" title="John Patrick (dramatist)">John Patrick</a> (1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Williams" title="Tennessee Williams">Tennessee Williams</a> (1955)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Hackett" title="Albert Hackett">Albert Hackett</a> and <a href="/wiki/Frances_Goodrich" title="Frances Goodrich">Frances Goodrich</a> (1956)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eugene_O%27Neill" title="Eugene O'Neill">Eugene O'Neill</a> (1957)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ketti_Frings" title="Ketti Frings">Ketti Frings</a> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Archibald_MacLeish" title="Archibald MacLeish">Archibald MacLeish</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerome_Weidman" title="Jerome Weidman">Jerome Weidman</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Abbott" title="George Abbott">George Abbott</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Bock" title="Jerry Bock">Jerry Bock</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sheldon_Harnick" title="Sheldon Harnick">Sheldon Harnick</a> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tad_Mosel" title="Tad Mosel">Tad Mosel</a> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Loesser" title="Frank Loesser">Frank Loesser</a> and <a href="/wiki/Abe_Burrows" title="Abe Burrows">Abe Burrows</a> (1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_D._Gilroy" title="Frank D. Gilroy">Frank D. Gilroy</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Albee" title="Edward Albee">Edward Albee</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Sackler" title="Howard Sackler">Howard Sackler</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Gordone" title="Charles Gordone">Charles Gordone</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Zindel" title="Paul Zindel">Paul Zindel</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jason_Miller_(playwright)" title="Jason Miller (playwright)">Jason Miller</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Albee" title="Edward Albee">Edward Albee</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Bennett_(theater)" title="Michael Bennett (theater)">Michael Bennett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Dante" title="Nicholas Dante">Nicholas Dante</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Kirkwood_Jr." title="James Kirkwood Jr.">James Kirkwood Jr.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marvin_Hamlisch" title="Marvin Hamlisch">Marvin Hamlisch</a> and <a href="/wiki/Edward_Kleban" title="Edward Kleban">Edward Kleban</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Cristofer" title="Michael Cristofer">Michael Cristofer</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_L._Coburn" title="Donald L. Coburn">Donald L. Coburn</a> (1978)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Sam Shepard</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lanford_Wilson" title="Lanford Wilson">Lanford Wilson</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beth_Henley" title="Beth Henley">Beth Henley</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Fuller" title="Charles Fuller">Charles Fuller</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marsha_Norman" title="Marsha Norman">Marsha Norman</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Mamet" title="David Mamet">David Mamet</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Lapine" title="James Lapine">James Lapine</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Sondheim" title="Stephen Sondheim">Stephen Sondheim</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_Wilson" title="August Wilson">August Wilson</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Uhry" title="Alfred Uhry">Alfred Uhry</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wendy_Wasserstein" title="Wendy Wasserstein">Wendy Wasserstein</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_Wilson" title="August Wilson">August Wilson</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Simon" title="Neil Simon">Neil Simon</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Schenkkan" title="Robert Schenkkan">Robert Schenkkan</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Kushner" title="Tony Kushner">Tony Kushner</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Albee" title="Edward Albee">Edward Albee</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horton_Foote" title="Horton Foote">Horton Foote</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Larson" title="Jonathan Larson">Jonathan Larson</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paula_Vogel" title="Paula Vogel">Paula Vogel</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Edson" title="Margaret Edson">Margaret Edson</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Margulies" title="Donald Margulies">Donald Margulies</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Auburn" title="David Auburn">David Auburn</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suzan-Lori_Parks" title="Suzan-Lori Parks">Suzan-Lori Parks</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nilo_Cruz" title="Nilo Cruz">Nilo Cruz</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doug_Wright" title="Doug Wright">Doug Wright</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Patrick_Shanley" title="John Patrick Shanley">John Patrick Shanley</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Lindsay-Abaire" title="David Lindsay-Abaire">David Lindsay-Abaire</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tracy_Letts" title="Tracy Letts">Tracy Letts</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lynn_Nottage" title="Lynn Nottage">Lynn Nottage</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Kitt_(musician)" title="Tom Kitt (musician)">Tom Kitt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brian_Yorkey" title="Brian Yorkey">Brian Yorkey</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Norris_(playwright)" title="Bruce Norris (playwright)">Bruce Norris</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quiara_Alegr%C3%ADa_Hudes" title="Quiara Alegría Hudes">Quiara Alegría Hudes</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ayad_Akhtar" title="Ayad Akhtar">Ayad Akhtar</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annie_Baker" title="Annie Baker">Annie Baker</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Adly_Guirgis" title="Stephen Adly Guirgis">Stephen Adly Guirgis</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lin-Manuel_Miranda" title="Lin-Manuel Miranda">Lin-Manuel Miranda</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lynn_Nottage" title="Lynn Nottage">Lynn Nottage</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martyna_Majok" title="Martyna Majok">Martyna Majok</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackie_Sibblies_Drury" title="Jackie Sibblies Drury">Jackie Sibblies Drury</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_R._Jackson" title="Michael R. 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