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...

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...

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...

Playwright, actor, and director Sam Shepard is a serious and distinguished playwright whose work is performed by his peers and admired by critics and theatergoers in many countries. He is, however, most widely and popularly known, particularly in the...

Sam Shepard (born November 5, 1943) is an American artist who has worked as an award-winning playwright, writer and actor. His many written works are known for being frank and often absurd, as well as for having an authentic sense of the style and...

Laurence Chollet The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 06-16-1996 ON BECOMING SAM SHEPARD By Laurence Chollet Date: 06-16-1996, Sunday Section: BOOKS & MUSIC Edition: All Editions -- Sunday Column: AUDIOBOOKS Sam Shepard, best known as a premier American playwright, is also a gifted...

Two recent monographs in "important authors" series from Twayne and Continuum are scholastically useful surveys of Sam Shepard's career - the sort of books you like to have handy on the shelf for brushing up on half-forgotten plots, tracking down errant quotations or...

Nominees for the 14th annual Screen Actors Guild awards:Movies:Actor: George Clooney, "Michael Clayton"; Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood"; Ryan Gosling, "Lars and the Real Girl"; Emile Hirsch, "Into the Wild"; Viggo Mortensen, "Eastern Promises."Actress: Cate Blanchett, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"; Julie Christie, "Away From...

Room with a view We were talking last week to Horst Rechelbacher, the founder of Aveda, about the $4.3m penthouse apartment he just bought at his One Fifth Avenue co-op. "The view here is Heaven," exclaimed Mr. Rechelbacher, referring to his wrap-around porch. "Heaven...

In the following essay, Carveth explores Shepard's examination of the human “self” in Paris, Texas.

In the following essay, Willadt analyzes the structure of States of Shock, emphasizing Shepard's sense of machismo and his portrayal of relationships between men.

In the following essay, Wyatt explores the ambivalence of the characters and the world view in Shepard's body of work.