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Sam Shepard
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American playwright and actor (1943–2017)
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Sam Shepard (1943–2017) was an American playwright and author. His professional career spanned from 1960 to 2017. He is the author of 172 works, including *A lie of the mind*, *Fool for Love*, *Great dream of heaven*, and *Le-shoṭeṭ be-gan ʻEden*. Shepard had three children.
His contributions have been recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Pulitzer Prize collection. An official website for his estate serves as a source for his work and archives.
Synthesized by Vinony from 26 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Firecrawl, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 5 November 1943
- Died
- 27 July 2017
- Works
- 172
Top works
- Le-shoṭeṭ be-gan ʻEden
- A lie of the mind
- True West (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
- Fool for Love (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
- Great dream of heaven
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 99
- Total plays
- 1,253
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,438x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,951x
- Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Locally Linear Embedding
· 2000 · cited 11,560x
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,800x
- The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans
· 2020 · cited 9,170x
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Official website
The Official Website of the Estate of Sam Shepard
A comprehensive source for the playwright's work and archives.
samshepardarchive.com →Link to the official site · 1,025 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sam
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Fort Sheridan
- Place of death
- Midway
- Spouse
- O-Lan Jones
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Field of work
- music
- Genre
- Western
- Official website
- www.samshepardarchive.com
- Image
- Sam Shepard Stealth crop.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
Show 15 more facts
- unmarried partner
- Jessica Lange
- Commons category
- Sam Shepard
- date of birth
- 1943-11-05
- member of
- Writers Guild of America West
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Play
- birth name
- Samuel Shepard Rogers III
- date of death
- 2017-07-27
- start of work period
- 1960-00-00
- name in native language
- Sam Shepard
- end of work period
- 2017-00-00
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- ALS
- personal library at
- Harry Ransom Center
- writing language
- English language
- P12674
- Mulleripicus
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Encyclopedic overview
Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, author and musician whose career spanned half a century. He wrote 58 plays and several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. His accolades include the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (for his play Buried Child), the Drama Desk Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award, and a record 10 Obie Awards. He was nominated for two Tony Awards, an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1994. The New York magazine described Shepard as "the greatest American playwright of his generation."
Shepard's 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 Off-off-Broadway work to the realism of later plays like Buried Child and Curse of the Starving Class.
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