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</style><table class="infobox 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"><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="Fort_Sheridan%2C_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&nbsp;73)<br><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="Midway%2C_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="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">
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</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years&nbsp;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="Sam_Shepard_filmography" title="Sam Shepard filmography">Full list</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1298804929">
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<div class="marriage-display-inline"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="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>&nbsp;1969; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr>&nbsp;1984)<wbr>​</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Partner</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="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"><a href="List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Sam_Shepard" title="List of awards and nominations received by Sam Shepard">Full list</a></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"></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>Samuel Shepard Rogers III</b> (November 5, 1943&nbsp;– July 27, 2017) was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, author and musician 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="Obie_Award" title="Obie Award">Obie Awards</a> for writing and directing, the most by any writer or director. Shepard received the <a href="Pulitzer_Prize_for_Drama" title="Pulitzer Prize for Drama">Pulitzer Prize for Drama</a> in 1979 for his play <i><a href="Buried_Child" title="Buried Child">Buried Child</a></i> and was nominated for an <a href="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="Chuck_Yeager" title="Chuck Yeager">Chuck Yeager</a> in the 1983 film <i><a href="The_Right_Stuff_(film)" title="The Right Stuff (film)">The Right Stuff</a></i>. He was nominated for two <a href="Tony_Awards" title="Tony Awards">Tony Awards</a> and received the <a href="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="New_York_(magazine)" title="New York (magazine)">New York</a></i> magazine described Shepard as "the greatest <a href="Theater_in_the_United_States" title="Theater in the United States">American playwright</a> 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="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="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="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>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life_and_career">Life and career</h2></div>
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<p>Sam Shepard was born on November 5, 1943, in the Chicago suburb of <a href="Fort_Sheridan%2C_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="Bomber" title="Bomber">bomber</a> pilot during <a href="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="Ranch" title="Ranch">ranch</a> as a teenager. After graduating from <a href="Duarte_High_School" title="Duarte High School">Duarte High School</a> in <a href="Duarte%2C_California" title="Duarte, California">Duarte, California</a>, in 1961, he briefly studied <a href="Animal_husbandry" title="Animal husbandry">animal husbandry</a> at nearby <a href="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="Samuel_Beckett" title="Samuel Beckett">Samuel Beckett</a>, <a href="Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a>, and <a href="Abstract_expressionism" title="Abstract expressionism">abstract expressionism</a>. He dropped out to join the Bishop's Company, a touring <a href="Repertory_theatre" title="Repertory theatre">repertory group</a>.
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<p>Shepard moved to New York City in 1963 and found work as a busboy at the <a href="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="Theatre_Genesis" title="Theatre Genesis">Theater Genesis</a>, housed at <a href="St._Mark's_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="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="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="Tom_O'Horgan" title="Tom O'Horgan">Tom O'Horgan</a> directed Shepard's <i>Melodrama Play</i> alongside <a href="Leonard_Melfi" title="Leonard Melfi">Leonard Melfi</a>'s <i>Times Square</i> and <a href="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="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="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="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="Syracuse_Stage" title="Syracuse Stage">Syracuse Stage</a> co-produced <i><a href="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="John_Densmore" title="John Densmore">John Densmore</a> performed in his own play <i>Skins</i> and Shepard and <a href="Joseph_Chaikin" title="Joseph Chaikin">Joseph Chaikin</a>'s play <i>Tongues</i>, directed as a <a href="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="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="La_Turista" title="La Turista">La Turista</a></i> (1967), were directed by <a href="Jacques_Levy" title="Jacques Levy">Jacques Levy</a>. A patron of the <a href="Hotel_Chelsea" title="Hotel Chelsea">Chelsea Hotel</a> scene, he also contributed to <a href="Kenneth_Tynan" title="Kenneth Tynan">Kenneth Tynan</a>'s <i><a href="Oh!_Calcutta!" title="Oh! Calcutta!">Oh! Calcutta!</a></i> (1969) and drummed sporadically from 1967 through 1971 with the band <a href="The_Holy_Modal_Rounders" title="The Holy Modal Rounders">The Holy Modal Rounders</a>, appearing on their albums <i><a href="Indian_War_Whoop" title="Indian War Whoop">Indian War Whoop</a></i> (1967) and <i><a href="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="Obie_Award" title="Obie Award">Obie Awards</a> between 1966 and 1968, Shepard emerged as a screenwriter with <a href="Robert_Frank" title="Robert Frank">Robert Frank</a>'s <i><a href="Me_and_My_Brother_(film)" title="Me and My Brother (film)">Me and My Brother</a></i> (1968) and <a href="Michelangelo_Antonioni" title="Michelangelo Antonioni">Michelangelo Antonioni</a>'s <i><a href="Zabriskie_Point_(film)" title="Zabriskie Point (film)">Zabriskie Point</a></i> (1970).
</p><p><i><a href="Cowboy_Mouth_(play)" title="Cowboy Mouth (play)">Cowboy Mouth</a></i>, a collaboration with his then-lover <a href="Patti_Smith" title="Patti Smith">Patti Smith</a>, was staged at <a href="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="G.I._Gurdjieff" class="mw-redirect" title="G.I. Gurdjieff">G.I. Gurdjieff</a>'s <a href="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="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="University_of_California%2C_Davis" title="University of California, Davis">University of California, Davis</a>.
</p><p>Shepard accompanied <a href="Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a> on the <a href="Rolling_Thunder_Revue" title="Rolling Thunder Revue">Rolling Thunder Revue</a> of 1975 as the screenwriter for <i><a href="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="Brownsville_Girl" title="Brownsville Girl">Brownsville Girl</a>", included on Dylan's 1986 album <i><a href="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="Artist-in-residence" title="Artist-in-residence">playwright-in-residence</a> at the <a href="Magic_Theatre" title="Magic Theatre">Magic Theatre</a> in San Francisco, where he created many of his notable works, including his <i><a href="Family_Trilogy" title="Family Trilogy">Family Trilogy</a></i>. One of the plays in the trilogy, <i><a href="Buried_Child" title="Buried Child">Buried Child</a></i> (1978), won the <a href="Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize">Pulitzer Prize</a>, and was nominated for five <a href="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="True_West_(play)" title="True West (play)">True West</a></i> (1980), <i><a href="Fool_for_Love_(play)" title="Fool for Love (play)">Fool for Love</a></i> (1983), and <i><a href="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="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="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></div>
<p>Shepard began his film acting career when cast in a major role as the land baron in <a href="Terrence_Malick" title="Terrence Malick">Terrence Malick</a>'s <i><a href="Days_of_Heaven" title="Days of Heaven">Days of Heaven</a></i> (1978), opposite <a href="Richard_Gere" title="Richard Gere">Richard Gere</a> and <a href="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="Ellen_Burstyn" title="Ellen Burstyn">Ellen Burstyn</a>'s character's love interest in <i><a href="Resurrection_(1980_film)" title="Resurrection (1980 film)">Resurrection</a></i> (1980), and, most notably, Shepard's portrayal of <a href="Chuck_Yeager" title="Chuck Yeager">Chuck Yeager</a> in <i><a href="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="Academy_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actor" title="Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor">Best Supporting Actor</a>. By 1986, <i><a href="Fool_for_Love_(1985_film)" title="Fool for Love (1985 film)">Fool for Love</a></i> was adapted by <a href="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="Off_Broadway" class="mw-redirect" title="Off Broadway">Off Broadway</a> (with <a href="Harvey_Keitel" title="Harvey Keitel">Harvey Keitel</a> and <a href="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="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="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="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="Nick_Nolte" title="Nick Nolte">Nick Nolte</a>, <a href="Sean_Penn" title="Sean Penn">Sean Penn</a>, <a href="Woody_Harrelson" title="Woody Harrelson">Woody Harrelson</a>, and <a href="Cheech_Marin" title="Cheech Marin">Cheech Marin</a>. The limited, three-month run was sold out. In 2001, Shepard played General <a href="William_F._Garrison" title="William F. Garrison">William F. Garrison</a> in the film <i><a href="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="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="Nirvana_(band)" title="Nirvana (band)">Nirvana</a>'s song "<a href="Smells_Like_Teen_Spirit" title="Smells Like Teen Spirit">Smells Like Teen Spirit</a>" on her album <i><a href="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="Joseph_Chaikin" title="Joseph Chaikin">Joseph Chaikin</a>, a veteran of <a href="The_Living_Theatre" title="The Living Theatre">The Living Theatre</a> and founder of <a href="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="Blackthorn_(film)" title="Blackthorn (film)">Blackthorn</a></i>. His final film appearance is <i><a href="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="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></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="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="Robert_Woodruff_(director)" title="Robert Woodruff (director)">Robert Woodruff</a>, who directed the premiere of <i><a href="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 (<i>Far North</i> and <i>Silent Tongue</i>) 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></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="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="The_Holy_Modal_Rounders" title="The Holy Modal Rounders">The Holy Modal Rounders</a> as drummer, participating in the recording of two albums, <a href="Indian_War_Whoop" title="Indian War Whoop">Indian War Whoop</a> released in 1967 and <a href="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="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="Patti_Smith" title="Patti Smith">Patti Smith</a>, who remained unaware of his identity as a multiple <a href="Obie_Award" title="Obie Award">Obie Award</a>-winning playwright until it was divulged to her by <a href="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="Joni_Mitchell" title="Joni Mitchell">Joni Mitchell</a> wrote two songs about her affairs with Shepard during Bob Dylan's <a href="Rolling_Thunder_Revue" title="Rolling Thunder Revue">Rolling Thunder Revue</a> tour of 1975. In "<a href="Coyote_(song)" title="Coyote (song)">Coyote</a>", from her eighth studio album <i><a href="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="Jessica_Lange" title="Jessica Lange">Jessica Lange</a> on the set of the 1982 film <i><a href="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="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="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="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="Icarus's_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="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="Drunk_driving" title="Drunk driving">drunk driving</a> in <a href="Normal%2C_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="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="Santa_Fe%2C_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 &amp; 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>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2></div>
<p>Shepard died on July 27, 2017, at his home in <a href="Midway%2C_Kentucky" title="Midway, Kentucky">Midway, Kentucky</a>, aged 73, from complications of <a href="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="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="Matthew_McConaughey" title="Matthew McConaughey">Matthew McConaughey</a>, who had co-starred with Shepard in <i><a href="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><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>
</p>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Archives">Archives</h4></div>
<p>Sam Shepard's papers are split between the <a href="Wittliff_collections" class="mw-redirect" title="Wittliff collections">Wittliff Collections</a> of Southwestern Writers at <a href="Texas_State_University" title="Texas State University">Texas State University</a>, comprising 27 boxes (13 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> and the <a href="Harry_Ransom_Center" title="Harry Ransom Center">Harry Ransom Center</a> at the <a href="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-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2></div>
<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="Sam_Shepard_filmography" title="Sam Shepard filmography">Sam Shepard filmography</a></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Plays">Plays</h3></div>
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<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-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>1965: <i>Chicago</i></li>
<li>1965: <i><a href="Icarus's_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="La_Turista" title="La Turista">La Turista</a></i></li>
<li>1967: <i>Cowboys #2</i></li>
<li>1967: <i>Forensic &amp; the Navigators</i></li>
<li>1969: <i>The Unseen Hand</i></li>
<li>1969: <i><a href="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="Cowboy_Mouth_(play)" title="Cowboy Mouth (play)">Cowboy Mouth</a></i> <small>(with <a href="Patti_Smith" title="Patti Smith">Patti Smith</a>)</small></li>
<li>1972: <i><a href="The_Tooth_of_Crime" title="The Tooth of Crime">The Tooth of Crime</a></i></li>
<li>1974: <i><a href="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="Killer's_Head" title="Killer's Head">Killer's Head</a></i></li>
<li>1975: <i><a href="Action_(play)" title="Action (play)">Action</a></i></li>
<li>1976: <i><a href="Angel_City_(play)" title="Angel City (play)">Angel City</a></i></li>
<li>1976: <i><a href="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="Curse_of_the_Starving_Class" title="Curse of the Starving Class">Curse of the Starving Class</a></i></li>
<li>1978: <i><a href="Buried_Child" title="Buried Child">Buried Child</a></i></li>
<li>1978: <i><a href="Tongues_(play)" title="Tongues (play)">Tongues</a></i> <small>(with <a href="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="True_West_(play)" title="True West (play)">True West</a></i></li>
<li>1981: <i><a href="Savage/Love" title="Savage/Love">Savage/Love</a></i> <small>(with Joseph Chaikin)</small></li>
<li>1983: <i><a href="Fool_for_Love_(play)" title="Fool for Love (play)">Fool for Love</a></i></li>
<li>1984: <i>Country</i></li>
<li>1985: <i><a href="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="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="The_God_of_Hell" title="The God of Hell">The God of Hell</a></i></li>
<li>2007: <i><a href="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></div>
<ul><li>1973: <i>Hawk Moon</i>, <a href="Black_Sparrow_Press" title="Black Sparrow Press">Black Sparrow Press</a>; <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">
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<li>1983: <i>Motel Chronicles</i>, <a href="City_Lights_Bookstore" title="City Lights Bookstore">City Lights</a>; <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>0-87286-143-0</bdi></li>
<li>1984: <i>Seven Plays</i>, <a href="Dial_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="Dial Press">Dial Press</a>, 368 pages; <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>0-553-34611-3</bdi></li>
<li>1984: <i>Fool for Love and Other Plays</i>, <a href="Bantam_Books" title="Bantam Books">Bantam Books</a>, 320 pages; <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>0-553-34590-7</bdi></li>
<li>1996: <i>The Unseen Hand: and Other Plays</i>, <a href="Vintage_Books" title="Vintage Books">Vintage Books</a>, 400 pages; <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>0-679-76789-4</bdi></li>
<li>1996: <i>Cruising Paradise</i>, <a href="Vintage_Books" title="Vintage Books">Vintage Books</a>, 255 pages; <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>0-679-74217-4</bdi></li>
<li>2003: <i>Great Dream of Heaven</i>, Vintage Books, 160 pages; <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>0-375-70452-3</bdi></li>
<li>2004: <i>Rolling Thunder Logbook</i>, <a href="Da_Capo_Press" title="Da Capo Press">Da Capo Press</a>, 176 pages (reissue); <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>0-306-81371-8</bdi></li>
<li>2004: <i>Day Out of Days: Stories</i>, <a href="Alfred_A._Knopf" title="Alfred A. Knopf">Knopf</a>, 304 pages; <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>978-0-307-26540-1</bdi></li>
<li>2013: <i>Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark</i>, <a href="University_of_Texas_Press" title="University of Texas Press">University of Texas Press</a>, 400 pages; <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>978-0-292-76196-4</bdi></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novels">Novels</h3></div>
<ul><li>2017: <i>The One Inside</i>, <a href="Alfred_A._Knopf" title="Alfred A. Knopf">Knopf</a>, 172 pages; <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>978-0-451-49458-0</bdi></li>
<li>2017: <i>Spy of the First Person</i>, Knopf, 96 pages (published posthumously); <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>978-0-525-52156-3</bdi></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_nominations">Awards and nominations</h2></div>
<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="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></div>
<ul><li><a href="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="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>
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<li id="cite_note-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-54">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFDeMara2013" class="citation news cs1">DeMara, Bruce (March 7, 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2013/03/07/shepard_dark_a_testament_to_friendship_review.html">"Shepard &amp; Dark, a testament to friendship: review"</a>. <i><a href="Toronto_Star" title="Toronto Star">Toronto Star</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130404192509/http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/2013/03/07/shepard_dark_a_testament_to_friendship_review.html">Archived</a> from the original on April 4, 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">April 24,</span> 2013</span>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><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&amp;pg=PR6"><i>Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark</i></a>. <a href="University_of_Texas_Press" title="University of Texas Press">University of Texas Press</a>. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>978-0-29275-422-5</bdi>.</cite></span>
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<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"><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>
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<li id="cite_note-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-57">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><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="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>
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<li id="cite_note-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-58">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><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>
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<li id="cite_note-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-59">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><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="Variety_(magazine)" title="Variety (magazine)">Variety</a></i>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-60">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFAssociated_Press2017" class="citation audio-visual cs1">Associated Press (July 31, 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHMF4LlWgZI"><i>Matthew McConaughey reacts to the news that Sam Shepard passed away</i></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 9,</span> 2025</span> – via YouTube.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-61">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><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>
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<li id="cite_note-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-62">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><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 class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{cite web}}</code>: CS1 maint: others (link)</span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-63">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><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&amp;pg=PT93"><i>Sam Shepard: A Life</i></a>. Catapult. p.&nbsp;93. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>978-1-61902-984-2</bdi><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 23,</span> 2023</span>.</cite></span>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2></div>
<ul><li><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></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><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="The_Paris_Review" title="The Paris Review">The Paris Review</a></i>. Spring 1997 (142).</cite></li>
<li><cite id="CITEREFShewey1997" class="citation book cs1">Shewey, Don (1997). <i>Sam Shepard</i>. Cambridge, Massachusetts: <a href="Da_Capo_Press" title="Da Capo Press">Da Capo Press</a>. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>978-0-306-80770-1</bdi>.</cite></li>
<li><cite id="CITEREFSmith2019" class="citation book cs1"><a href="Patti_Smith" title="Patti Smith">Smith, Patti</a> (2019). <a href="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="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>978-0525657682</bdi>.</cite></li>
<li><cite id="CITEREFWinters2017" class="citation book cs1">Winters, John (2017). <i>Sam Shepard: A Life</i>. Berkeley, California. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>978-1619027084</bdi>. <a href="OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a>&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/960836493">960836493</a>.</cite><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{cite book}}</code>: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)</span></li></ul>
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<table class="infobox-subbox"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:33%;">Location</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Harry_Ransom_Center" title="Harry Ransom Center">Harry Ransom Center</a>, <a href="Wittliff_Collections" title="Wittliff Collections">Wittliff collections</a>&nbsp;<span class="penicon autoconfirmed-show"></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:33%;">Identifiers</th><td class="infobox-data">MS-5197&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="width:33%;">Source</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu/research/a-z/shepard.html">Sam Shepard Papers</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td>
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How to use archival material</td></tr></tbody></table>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bayareabarnsandtrails.com/forms/Flying_Y_Ranch.pdf">The Flying Y Ranch</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180816125919/http://bayareabarnsandtrails.com/forms/Flying_Y_Ranch.pdf">Archived</a> August 16, 2018, at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00546">Sam Shepard Papers</a> at the <a href="Harry_Ransom_Center" title="Harry Ransom Center">Harry Ransom Center</a>, University of Texas at Austin</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/theatre_dance/shepard/shepard.html">Sam Shepard</a> at Bucknell University</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001731/">Sam Shepard</a> at <a href="IMDb_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="IMDb (identifier)">IMDb</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/8584">Sam Shepard</a> at the <a href="Internet_Broadway_Database" title="Internet Broadway Database">Internet Broadway Database</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.iobdb.com/CreditableEntity/492">Sam Shepard</a> at the <a href="Internet_Off-Broadway_Database" title="Internet Off-Broadway Database">Internet Off-Broadway Database</a> (archived)</li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/175941%7C*">Sam Shepard</a> at the <a href="Turner_Classic_Movies" title="Turner Classic Movies">TCM Movie Database</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archives.nypl.org/the/22443">Carol Benet collection of Sam Shepard research materials, 1970–1995</a> Billy Rose Theatre Division, <a href="New_York_Public_Library_for_the_Performing_Arts" title="New York Public Library for the Performing Arts">New York Public Library for the Performing Arts</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.lamama.org/Detail/entities/361">Sam Shepard</a> on <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.lamama.org/">La MaMa Archives Digital Collections</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Sam_Shepard" title="List of awards and nominations received by Sam Shepard">Awards</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Plays</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="Icarus's_Mother" title="Icarus's Mother">Icarus's Mother</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="La_Turista" title="La Turista">La Turista</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Oh!_Calcutta!" title="Oh! Calcutta!">Oh! Calcutta!</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Cowboy_Mouth_(play)" title="Cowboy Mouth (play)">Cowboy Mouth</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="The_Tooth_of_Crime" title="The Tooth of Crime">The Tooth of Crime</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Geography_of_a_Horse_Dreamer" title="Geography of a Horse Dreamer">Geography of a Horse Dreamer</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Action_(play)" title="Action (play)">Action</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Killer's_Head" title="Killer's Head">Killer's Head</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Angel_City_(play)" title="Angel City (play)">Angel City</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Suicide_in_B_Flat" class="mw-redirect" title="Suicide in B Flat">Suicide in B Flat</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Tongues_(play)" title="Tongues (play)">Tongues</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Simpatico_(play)" title="Simpatico (play)">Simpatico</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="The_God_of_Hell" title="The God of Hell">The God of Hell</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Kicking_a_Dead_Horse" title="Kicking a Dead Horse">Kicking a Dead Horse</a></i></li></ul>
</div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Family_Trilogy22" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="Family_Trilogy" title="Family Trilogy">Family Trilogy</a></i></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="Curse_of_the_Starving_Class" title="Curse of the Starving Class">Curse of the Starving Class</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Buried_Child" title="Buried Child">Buried Child</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="True_West_(play)" title="True West (play)">True West</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Fool_for_Love_(play)" title="Fool for Love (play)">Fool for Love</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="A_Lie_of_the_Mind" title="A Lie of the Mind">A Lie of the Mind</a></i></li></ul>
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</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="Me_and_My_Brother_(film)" title="Me and My Brother (film)">Me and My Brother</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Zabriskie_Point_(film)" title="Zabriskie Point (film)">Zabriskie Point</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Renaldo_and_Clara" title="Renaldo and Clara">Renaldo and Clara</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Paris%2C_Texas_(film)" title="Paris, Texas (film)">Paris, Texas</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Far_North_(1988_film)" title="Far North (1988 film)">Far North</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Silent_Tongue" title="Silent Tongue">Silent Tongue</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="Don't_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="Family_Trilogy" title="Family Trilogy">Family Trilogy</a></i></li>
<li><a href="O-Lan_Jones" title="O-Lan Jones">O-Lan Jones</a></li>
<li><a href="Jessica_Lange" title="Jessica Lange">Jessica Lange</a></li>
<li><a href="Patti_Smith" title="Patti Smith">Patti Smith</a></li>
<li>"<a href="Brownsville_Girl" title="Brownsville Girl">Brownsville Girl</a>"</li>
<li>"<a href="Coyote_(song)" title="Coyote (song)">Coyote</a>"</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Jesse_Lynch_Williams" title="Jesse Lynch Williams">Jesse Lynch Williams</a> (1918)</li>
<li><a href="Eugene_O'Neill" title="Eugene O'Neill">Eugene O'Neill</a> (1920)</li>
<li><a href="Zona_Gale" title="Zona Gale">Zona Gale</a> (1921)</li>
<li><a href="Eugene_O'Neill" title="Eugene O'Neill">Eugene O'Neill</a> (1922)</li>
<li><a href="Owen_Davis" title="Owen Davis">Owen Davis</a> (1923)</li>
<li><a href="Hatcher_Hughes" title="Hatcher Hughes">Hatcher Hughes</a> (1924)</li>
<li><a href="Sidney_Howard" title="Sidney Howard">Sidney Howard</a> (1925)</li>
<li><a href="George_Kelly_(playwright)" title="George Kelly (playwright)">George Kelly</a> (1926)</li>
<li><a href="Paul_Green_(playwright)" title="Paul Green (playwright)">Paul Green</a> (1927)</li>
<li><a href="Eugene_O'Neill" title="Eugene O'Neill">Eugene O'Neill</a> (1928)</li>
<li><a href="Elmer_Rice" title="Elmer Rice">Elmer Rice</a> (1929)</li>
<li><a href="Marc_Connelly" title="Marc Connelly">Marc Connelly</a> (1930)</li>
<li><a href="Susan_Glaspell" title="Susan Glaspell">Susan Glaspell</a> (1931)</li>
<li><a href="George_S._Kaufman" title="George S. Kaufman">George S. Kaufman</a>, <a href="Morrie_Ryskind" title="Morrie Ryskind">Morrie Ryskind</a> and <a href="Ira_Gershwin" title="Ira Gershwin">Ira Gershwin</a> (1932)</li>
<li><a href="Maxwell_Anderson" title="Maxwell Anderson">Maxwell Anderson</a> (1933)</li>
<li><a href="Sidney_Kingsley" title="Sidney Kingsley">Sidney Kingsley</a> (1934)</li>
<li><a href="Zoe_Akins" title="Zoe Akins">Zoe Akins</a> (1935)</li>
<li><a href="Robert_E._Sherwood" title="Robert E. Sherwood">Robert E. Sherwood</a> (1936)</li>
<li><a href="Moss_Hart" title="Moss Hart">Moss Hart</a> and <a href="George_S._Kaufman" title="George S. Kaufman">George S. Kaufman</a> (1937)</li>
<li><a href="Thornton_Wilder" title="Thornton Wilder">Thornton Wilder</a> (1938)</li>
<li><a href="Robert_E._Sherwood" title="Robert E. Sherwood">Robert E. Sherwood</a> (1939)</li>
<li><a href="William_Saroyan" title="William Saroyan">William Saroyan</a> (1940)</li>
<li><a href="Robert_E._Sherwood" title="Robert E. Sherwood">Robert E. Sherwood</a> (1941)</li>
<li><a href="Thornton_Wilder" title="Thornton Wilder">Thornton Wilder</a> (1943)</li>
<li><a href="Mary_Chase_(playwright)" title="Mary Chase (playwright)">Mary Chase</a> (1945)</li>
<li><a href="Russel_Crouse" title="Russel Crouse">Russel Crouse</a> and <a href="Howard_Lindsay" title="Howard Lindsay">Howard Lindsay</a> (1946)</li>
<li><a href="Tennessee_Williams" title="Tennessee Williams">Tennessee Williams</a> (1948)</li>
<li><a href="Arthur_Miller" title="Arthur Miller">Arthur Miller</a> (1949)</li>
<li><a href="Richard_Rodgers" title="Richard Rodgers">Richard Rodgers</a>, <a href="Oscar_Hammerstein_II" title="Oscar Hammerstein II">Oscar Hammerstein II</a> and <a href="Joshua_Logan" title="Joshua Logan">Joshua Logan</a> (1950)</li>
<li><a href="Joseph_Kramm" title="Joseph Kramm">Joseph Kramm</a> (1952)</li>
<li><a href="William_Inge" title="William Inge">William Inge</a> (1953)</li>
<li><a href="John_Patrick_(dramatist)" title="John Patrick (dramatist)">John Patrick</a> (1954)</li>
<li><a href="Tennessee_Williams" title="Tennessee Williams">Tennessee Williams</a> (1955)</li>
<li><a href="Albert_Hackett" title="Albert Hackett">Albert Hackett</a> and <a href="Frances_Goodrich" title="Frances Goodrich">Frances Goodrich</a> (1956)</li>
<li><a href="Eugene_O'Neill" title="Eugene O'Neill">Eugene O'Neill</a> (1957)</li>
<li><a href="Ketti_Frings" title="Ketti Frings">Ketti Frings</a> (1958)</li>
<li><a href="Archibald_MacLeish" title="Archibald MacLeish">Archibald MacLeish</a> (1959)</li>
<li><a href="Jerome_Weidman" title="Jerome Weidman">Jerome Weidman</a>, <a href="George_Abbott" title="George Abbott">George Abbott</a>, <a href="Jerry_Bock" title="Jerry Bock">Jerry Bock</a> and <a href="Sheldon_Harnick" title="Sheldon Harnick">Sheldon Harnick</a> (1960)</li>
<li><a href="Tad_Mosel" title="Tad Mosel">Tad Mosel</a> (1961)</li>
<li><a href="Frank_Loesser" title="Frank Loesser">Frank Loesser</a> and <a href="Abe_Burrows" title="Abe Burrows">Abe Burrows</a> (1962)</li>
<li><a href="Frank_D._Gilroy" title="Frank D. Gilroy">Frank D. Gilroy</a> (1965)</li>
<li><a href="Edward_Albee" title="Edward Albee">Edward Albee</a> (1967)</li>
<li><a href="Howard_Sackler" title="Howard Sackler">Howard Sackler</a> (1969)</li>
<li><a href="Charles_Gordone" title="Charles Gordone">Charles Gordone</a> (1970)</li>
<li><a href="Paul_Zindel" title="Paul Zindel">Paul Zindel</a> (1971)</li>
<li><a href="Jason_Miller_(playwright)" title="Jason Miller (playwright)">Jason Miller</a> (1973)</li>
<li><a href="Edward_Albee" title="Edward Albee">Edward Albee</a> (1975)</li>
<li><a href="Michael_Bennett_(theater)" title="Michael Bennett (theater)">Michael Bennett</a>, <a href="Nicholas_Dante" title="Nicholas Dante">Nicholas Dante</a>, <a href="James_Kirkwood_Jr." title="James Kirkwood Jr.">James Kirkwood Jr.</a>, <a href="Marvin_Hamlisch" title="Marvin Hamlisch">Marvin Hamlisch</a> and <a href="Edward_Kleban" title="Edward Kleban">Edward Kleban</a> (1976)</li>
<li><a href="Michael_Cristofer" title="Michael Cristofer">Michael Cristofer</a> (1977)</li>
<li><a href="D._L._Coburn" title="D. L. Coburn">D. L. Coburn</a> (1978)</li>
<li> (1979)</li>
<li><a href="Lanford_Wilson" title="Lanford Wilson">Lanford Wilson</a> (1980)</li>
<li><a href="Beth_Henley" title="Beth Henley">Beth Henley</a> (1981)</li>
<li><a href="Charles_Fuller" title="Charles Fuller">Charles Fuller</a> (1982)</li>
<li><a href="Marsha_Norman" title="Marsha Norman">Marsha Norman</a> (1983)</li>
<li><a href="David_Mamet" title="David Mamet">David Mamet</a> (1984)</li>
<li><a href="James_Lapine" title="James Lapine">James Lapine</a> and <a href="Stephen_Sondheim" title="Stephen Sondheim">Stephen Sondheim</a> (1985)</li>
<li><a href="August_Wilson" title="August Wilson">August Wilson</a> (1987)</li>
<li><a href="Alfred_Uhry" title="Alfred Uhry">Alfred Uhry</a> (1988)</li>
<li><a href="Wendy_Wasserstein" title="Wendy Wasserstein">Wendy Wasserstein</a> (1989)</li>
<li><a href="August_Wilson" title="August Wilson">August Wilson</a> (1990)</li>
<li><a href="Neil_Simon" title="Neil Simon">Neil Simon</a> (1991)</li>
<li><a href="Robert_Schenkkan" title="Robert Schenkkan">Robert Schenkkan</a> (1992)</li>
<li><a href="Tony_Kushner" title="Tony Kushner">Tony Kushner</a> (1993)</li>
<li><a href="Edward_Albee" title="Edward Albee">Edward Albee</a> (1994)</li>
<li><a href="Horton_Foote" title="Horton Foote">Horton Foote</a> (1995)</li>
<li><a href="Jonathan_Larson" title="Jonathan Larson">Jonathan Larson</a> (1996)</li>
<li><a href="Paula_Vogel" title="Paula Vogel">Paula Vogel</a> (1998)</li>
<li><a href="Margaret_Edson" title="Margaret Edson">Margaret Edson</a> (1999)</li>
<li><a href="Donald_Margulies" title="Donald Margulies">Donald Margulies</a> (2000)</li>
<li><a href="David_Auburn" title="David Auburn">David Auburn</a> (2001)</li>
<li><a href="Suzan-Lori_Parks" title="Suzan-Lori Parks">Suzan-Lori Parks</a> (2002)</li>
<li><a href="Nilo_Cruz" title="Nilo Cruz">Nilo Cruz</a> (2003)</li>
<li><a href="Doug_Wright" title="Doug Wright">Doug Wright</a> (2004)</li>
<li><a href="John_Patrick_Shanley" title="John Patrick Shanley">John Patrick Shanley</a> (2005)</li>
<li><a href="David_Lindsay-Abaire" title="David Lindsay-Abaire">David Lindsay-Abaire</a> (2007)</li>
<li><a href="Tracy_Letts" title="Tracy Letts">Tracy Letts</a> (2008)</li>
<li><a href="Lynn_Nottage" title="Lynn Nottage">Lynn Nottage</a> (2009)</li>
<li><a href="Tom_Kitt_(musician)" title="Tom Kitt (musician)">Tom Kitt</a> and <a href="Brian_Yorkey" title="Brian Yorkey">Brian Yorkey</a> (2010)</li>
<li><a href="Bruce_Norris_(playwright)" title="Bruce Norris (playwright)">Bruce Norris</a> (2011)</li>
<li><a href="Quiara_Alegr%C3%ADa_Hudes" title="Quiara Alegría Hudes">Quiara Alegría Hudes</a> (2012)</li>
<li><a href="Ayad_Akhtar" title="Ayad Akhtar">Ayad Akhtar</a> (2013)</li>
<li><a href="Annie_Baker" title="Annie Baker">Annie Baker</a> (2014)</li>
<li><a href="Stephen_Adly_Guirgis" title="Stephen Adly Guirgis">Stephen Adly Guirgis</a> (2015)</li>
<li><a href="Lin-Manuel_Miranda" title="Lin-Manuel Miranda">Lin-Manuel Miranda</a> (2016)</li>
<li><a href="Lynn_Nottage" title="Lynn Nottage">Lynn Nottage</a> (2017)</li>
<li><a href="Martyna_Majok" title="Martyna Majok">Martyna Majok</a> (2018)</li>
<li><a href="Jackie_Sibblies_Drury" title="Jackie Sibblies Drury">Jackie Sibblies Drury</a> (2019)</li>
<li><a href="Michael_R._Jackson" title="Michael R. Jackson">Michael R. Jackson</a> (2020)</li>
<li><a href="Katori_Hall" title="Katori Hall">Katori Hall</a> (2021)</li>
<li><a href="James_Ijames" title="James Ijames">James Ijames</a> (2022)</li>
<li><a href="Sanaz_Toossi" title="Sanaz Toossi">Sanaz Toossi</a> (2023)</li>
<li><a href="Eboni_Booth" title="Eboni Booth">Eboni Booth</a> (2024)</li>
<li><a href="Branden_Jacobs-Jenkins" title="Branden Jacobs-Jenkins">Branden Jacobs-Jenkins</a> (2025)</li></ul>
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href="https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b9afb910-1f9e-46fc-9806-df8f49015568">MusicBrainz</a></span></li><li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://kulturnav.org/ca996149-7652-4bcf-acfe-43c9ffeb8140">KulturNav</a></span></li><li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.moma.org/artists/32204">Museum of Modern Art</a></span></li><li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.emmys.com/bios/sam-shepard">Emmy Awards</a></span></li><li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.performing-arts.eu/discovery/agent/gnd_118812025">FID</a></span></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">People</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><ul><li><span class="uid"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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