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About Sam Shepard
American playwright, actor and author
Sam Shepard was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, author and musician. He is known for a career that spanned half a century and for writing 58 plays, along with books of short stories, essays and memoirs. His work earned major recognition, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Drama Desk Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award and a record 10 Obie Awards. He was also nominated for two Tony Awards, an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Laurence Olivier Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, and he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1994.
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- “I think without writing I would feel completely useless.”Sam Shepard
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Writing: more sayings
- “Spend more time working before you write page one. Then, the story - at least parts of it - will feel as thou…”Douglas Brunt
- “It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do tw…”Alan Furst
- “I've never tried writing at a coffeehouse. I just know instinctively it's not for me.”Wentworth Miller
Explore Music
- “The Beatles are the classical music of rock n' roll. And rock n' roll is far more widespread than classical w…”Lemmy
- “A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.”Carl Jung
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Books by Sam Shepard
Great dream of heaven
2002
Cruising Paradise
1996
Seven Plays (Buried Child / Curse of the Starving Class / The Tooth of Crime / La Turista / Tongues / Savage Love / True West)
1984
Rolling Thunder logbook
1977
Four two-act plays
1968