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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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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