Sam Shepard (1943–2017)
Author of Seven Plays
About the Author
Sam Shepard was born Samuel Shepard Rogers III on an army base in Illinois on November 5, 1943. He briefly studied agriculture at Mount San Antonio College, but dropped out to move to New York in 1962. He wrote more than 55 plays during his lifetime. His first play was produced off-off-Broadway show more when he was 19 years old and he won the first of his 8 Obie Awards when he was 23 years old. His plays included Chicago, The Tooth of Crime, True West, Fool for Love, A Lie of the Mind, The Late Henry Moss, Heartless, and A Particle of Dread. He received the Pulitzer Prize for drama for Buried Child in 1978. He was an actor for both film and television. His films included Days of Heaven, The Right Stuff, and Baby Boom. He also appeared in the Netflix series Bloodline. He wrote or co-wrote several screenplays including Far North and Renaldo and Clara with Bob Dylan. He also wrote songs with John Cale and Bob Dylan including Brownsville Girl. He wrote several books including Cruising Paradise and Motel Chronicles. He died from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis on July 27, 2017 at the age of 73. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Sam Shepard
The Late Henry Moss, Eyes for Consuela, When the World Was Green: Three Plays (2002) 40 copies, 1 review
Sam Shepard: Plays 1: The Unseen Hand, Chicago, Icarus's Mother, Red Cross, Cowboys, Operation Sidewinder, Killer's… (1996) 7 copies
Red Cross 4 copies
Icarus's Mother 4 copies
Buried Child: A Play 3 copies
Fourteen Hundred Thousand 3 copies
Chicago 3 copies
Ruffian 2 copies
Een dag als geen ander 2 copies
Melodrama Play 2 copies
4-H Club 2 copies
The Mad Dog Blues 2 copies
Back Bog Beast Bait 2 copies
Forensic & The Navigators 2 copies
Killer's Head 2 copies
The Holy Ghostly 2 copies
Cowboys #2 2 copies
The Rock Garden 2 copies
Two Plays 1 copy
Cold in July [Blu-ray] 1 copy
MOTEL GÜNLÜKLERİ 1 copy
True West by Sam Shepard (1-Jan-1996) Paperback — Author — 1 copy
Right Stuff [VHS] 1 copy
The Outbreak Bundle 1 copy
The Outbreak Episode 5 1 copy
The Outbreak Episode 4 1 copy
The Outbreak Episode 3 1 copy
O GRANDE SONHO DO PARAÍSO 1 copy
Sympatico ; Act 1-3 1 copy
Suicide In B♭ 1 copy
Action 1 copy
Geography of a Horse Dreamer 1 copy
Indianapolis (Highway 74) 1 copy
The War in Heaven 1 copy
The Outbreak Episode 2 1 copy
Associated Works
Drinking, Smoking and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times (1994) — Contributor — 337 copies, 4 reviews
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford [2007 film] (2007) — Actor — 231 copies, 2 reviews
The Actor's Book of Contemporary Stage Monologues: More Than 150 Monologues from More Than 70 Playwrights (1987) — Contributor — 178 copies
The Actor's Book of Scenes from New Plays: 70 Scenes for Two Actors, from Today's Hottest Playwrights (1988) — Contributor — 81 copies
Bloodline: Season 1 — Actor — 5 copies
Bloodline: Season 2 — Actor — 3 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Rogers, Samuel Shepard, III
- Other names
- Shepard, Sam
- Birthdate
- 1943-11-05
- Date of death
- 2017-07-27
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA
- Place of death
- Midway, Kentucky, USA
- Cause of death
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Places of residence
- Fort Sheridan, Illinois, USA (birth)
New York, New York, USA
England, UK
San Francisco, California, USA
Duarte, California, USA (grew up) - Occupations
- playwright
actor
screenwriter
director - Relationships
- Lange, Jessica (former partner)
Shepard, Jesse (son) - Organizations
- The Open Theater, New York (cofounder)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1986) - Awards and honors
- Gold Medal, American Academy of Arts and Letters (1992)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1974)
Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama (2009)
Obie Award (1966, 1967, 1968, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1984)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1986)
American Theater Hall of Fame (1994) (show all 7)
Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1979)
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Reviews
Hawk Moon: Short Stories, Poems, and Monologues by Sam Shepard
An early collection of Shepard's writings. These must have been mostly from college because they were not good. Maybe affected by the Beats, he just threw words on a page for most of them. I do like Shepard's short essay -stories, insightful and sparsely written with his experience of growing up in the SW the base of most of them, But those came later.
½
Another collection of Vignettes around remembrances of his life. Some as stories and others as poems. When he is describing the SW US or Mexico his writing is sharp and vivid. Other times not so much. Not his best but if you like Shepard it will do.
August 2019 (Audible Original -- from June maybe?);
This took three different starts to finish, and only finished this time because I was bound and determined not to turn it off. I didn't love anything about these two characters or their story. This is definitely one I'd like to return to Audible for something better.
This took three different starts to finish, and only finished this time because I was bound and determined not to turn it off. I didn't love anything about these two characters or their story. This is definitely one I'd like to return to Audible for something better.
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Statistics
- Works
- 113
- Also by
- 57
- Members
- 5,105
- Popularity
- #4,896
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 99
- ISBNs
- 270
- Languages
- 13
- Favorited
- 21
