- American playwright, actor, author, screenwriter, and director, whose body of work spans over half a century
| Real name: | Samuel Shepard Rogers III | | Born: | 05 November 1943 Comment | | When did Sam Shepard die? / Died | 30 July 2017 | | How many years did Sam Shepard live? / Lived | 73 years | | Where was Sam Shepard born? | Fort Sheridan, Illinois, US | | Zodiac sign: | Scorpio |
Sam Shepard Net worth 2024 (estimated)
| | How much is Sam Shepard worth? | Under review
| | Nationality: | American | | Hair color: | Blue | | Eyes color: | Light brown |
Who was Sam Shepard? / Facts
- He is the author of forty-four plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs
- Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child
- He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff (1983)
- Shepard received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a master American dramatist in 2009
- New York described him as "the greatest American playwright of his generation
- Shepard's plays are chiefly known for their bleak, poetic, often surrealist elements, black humor and rootless characters living on the outskirts of American society
- His style has evolved over the years, from the absurdism of his early Off-Off-Broadway work to the realism of Buried Child and Curse of the Starving Class (both 1978)
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