Sam Shepard
Samuel Shepard Rogers III November 5 1943 July 27 2017 was an American playwright actor director screenwriter and author whose career spanned half a century He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories essays and memoirs He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing the most by any writer or director 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 portraying pilot Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film The Right Stuff He received the PENLaura Pels Theater Award as a master American dramatist in 2009 New York magazine described Shepard as the greatest American playwright of his generation Shepards plays are known for their bleak poetic surrealist elements black comedy and rootless characters living on the outskirts of American society His style evolved from the absurdism of his early offoffBroadway work to the realism of later plays like Buried Child and Curse of the Starving Class
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