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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 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When Sam Shepard died on July 27, 2017, the world lost one of the greatest playwrights of the past half-century. He was an artist renowned for bravely plumbing his own life for ...

playwright and actor dead at 73 Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and actor Sam Shepard has died at the age of 73 following his battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease.

Is Tim Walz Actually a ‘Permission’ Slip for White-Dude Voters? Sam Shepard has died, and American theater has lost one of its last remaining giants. Shepard is the author of dozens of plays ...

John J. Winters, Bridgewater State University (THE CONVERSATION) When Sam Shepard died on July 27, 2017, the world lost one of the greatest playwrights of the past half-century. He was an artist ...