It looks like you're offline.
Donate
English (en) Change Website Language
Open Library logo
additional options menu
Last edited by tmanarl
December 12, 2022 | History
Edit

Sam Shepard

Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director whose career spanned half a century. He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most by any writer or director. He wrote 58 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 and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film The Right Stuff. He received the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award as a master American dramatist in 2009. New York magazine described Shepard as "the greatest American playwright of his generation." source

Photo of Sam Shepard

Born 5 November 1943
Died 27 July 2017

175 works Add another?

Showing all works by author. Would you like to see only ebooks?

  • Cover of: מכור לאהבה

    First published in 1991 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: Back Bog Beast Bait

    First published in 2012 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: Forensic and the Navigators

    First published in 2012 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: 4-H Club

    First published in 2012 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: The Holy Ghostly

    First published in 2012 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: Shaved Splits

    First published in 2012 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: The Unseen Hand

    First published in 2012 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: God of Hell

    First published in 2012 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: תינוק קבור

    First published in 1989 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: The one inside

    First published in 2017 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: Spy of the first person

    First published in 2017 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: Kicking a Dead Horse (Vintage)

    First published in 2008 — 1 edition
    Preview Only

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: Heartless: a play

    First published in 2013 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: 2 prospectors: the letters of Sam Shepard & Johnny Dark

    First published in 2013 — 1 edition
    Locate

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
  • Cover of: The god from hell

    First published in 2006 — 1 edition
    Preview Only

    My Reading Lists:

    Create a new list

    Check-In

    ×Close
    Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
    Today
Photo of Sam Shepard

Born 5 November 1943
Died 27 July 2017

Subjects

American drama (dramatic works by one author), American drama, Drama, Drama (dramatic works by one author), Fiction, Families, Fiction, short stories (single author), American literature, Art dealers, Memory, New York Times reviewed, Plays, Specimens, Theater programs, Conservatism, Dramatists, correspondence, Dysfunctional families, English drama, Family, Fathers and sons, Fiction, general, Fiction, psychological, General, Liberty, Manners and customs

Places

Israel, West (U.S.), Mexico, Middle West, United States

People

Sam Shepard (1943-), Bob Dylan (1941-), Johnny Dark (1940-), Oedipus (Greek mythological figure), Sam Shepard (1943-2017)

Time

20th century

Add to List

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

ID Numbers

Links outside Open Library

No links yet. Add one?

Alternative names

  • Shepard, Sam, 1943-
  • Samuel Shepard Rogers III

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON
December 12, 2022 Edited by tmanarl bio
December 12, 2022 Edited by tmanarl Added new photo
December 12, 2022 Edited by tmanarl merge authors
December 11, 2022 Edited by wjhollerich added death year, VIAF ID
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import