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Sam Shepard
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Biography
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Sam Shepard was an American playwright, actor and prose writer whose work repeatedly returned to family conflict and the promises and disappointments of American life. Buried Child won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1979, and True West was a finalist in 1983. His writing also includes story collections and the novels The One Inside and Spy of the First Person.
As an actor he received an Academy Award nomination for The Right Stuff. He wrote the screenplay for Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas, connecting his dramatic writing with one of the defining independent films of the 1980s. Shepard died in 2017.
Reviewed 2026-09-07Selected sources
- Pulitzer Prizes — Sam Shepard, 1979 winnerBuried Child award.
- Penguin Random House — Sam ShepardProse writing, acting nomination and death.
- BFI — Paris, TexasScreenwriting credit.
- Pulitzer Prizes — Sam Shepard, 1983 finalistTrue West recognition.
