A new biography of Sam Shepard, an EGOT-level talent as a playwright and performer, traces the career he forged after leaving ...

Though he died less than six years ago, at the age of 73, there have already been three biographies of the playwright-actor Sam Shepard. Now we have a fourth: “True West: Sam Shepard’s Life, Work, and ...

Two new books take up that most durable of American subjects -- the uneasy space between what we imagine ourselves to be and ...

Sam Shepard returns to the American West in his third collection of fiction, leaving stories like place markers on his steady journey across the map. In 133 short tales, dialogues and vignettes, he ...

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Héctor Tobar is a son of Los Angeles, a city of “perpetual cultural mixing.” Here, he guides readers through the books and writers that cut through the city’s layers. By Héctor Tobar “True West” is a ...

Literary, theater and film folks are mourning the death of the great Sam Shepard. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor and author famed for pithy works about dysfunctional ...

Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, died on Thursday at his home in Kentucky. He was 73. Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and ...

Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, and author whose career spanned half a century. He wrote 58 plays as well as ...