Sam Shepard (Samuel Shepard Rogers VII; born 1943) began his career as a playwright in the lively off-off-Broadway scene of the 1960s and became one of the United States' most prolific and acclaimed dramatists. He was also a film actor, a stage and film...

November 5, 1943. Samuel "Steve" Shepard Rogers "...plunged into the world head first and, although covered with blood, my attitude was very friendly.... "My name came down through seven generations of men with the same name each naming the first son the...

Although Sam Shepard has written more than forty plays and five screenplays, including collaborating on Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point (1970) and Wim Wenders's Paris, Texas (1984); has directed two movies based on his scripts, Far North (1988)...

This month, Minnesota Public Radio celebrates Valentine's Day by asking Web audiences, "What's the most foolish thing you've done for love?" (Visit www.mpr.org today to submit your story). "Plugged In" decided it was only fair to raise the same question to our on-air hosts...

MIDDLE AGE A Romance By Joyce Carol Oates Ecco. 464 pp. $28 The "hottest" novelist on the American literary scene today is that old fogey Philip Roth. With the exception of the recent dud The Dying Animal, he's been on...

Jack Nicholson, the legendary ladies' man, says he'd like to fall in love again."I never minded being a fool for love," the 70-year-old Oscar winner tells AARP The Magazine. "It's nice to have a place to be foolish. Ask any old friend of mine, they'll...