Yet none of them can claim Shepard’s fire. The man had something. He gnawed that bone until it broke. Sam Shepard, dead at 73. Long may he live in repertory.

Sam Shepard, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and keen observer of American family life, dies at 73 Shepard, 73, died in Kentucky last week following a battle with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig ...

US actor and playwright Sam Shepard has died at the age of 73. Shepard wrote more than 40 plays and won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for Buried Child in 1979. He went on to be nominated for the ...

Those are just a few of the ways friends and collaborators have summed up Sam Shepard, the actor and writer whose death was announced this week. Shepard wrote more than 40 plays - a Pulitzer ...