Sam Shepard's Battle With ALS: Inside His Final Years and Why He …
Aug 1, 2017 · The acclaimed actor, playwright and writer died last Thursday at 73 of complications from ALS, a representative for his family said. He fought the neurodegenerative disease for a “couple years,”...
Sam Shepard - Wikipedia
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. [1] He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs.
Sam Shepard, Pulitzer-winning playwright, dead at Age 73
Jul 31, 2017 · Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who became a movie star with his Oscar-nominated portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in "The Right Stuff," died at his home in Kentucky. He was 73.
Sam Shepard, Pulitzer-winning playwright, is dead at 73 | AP News
Jul 31, 2017 · NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor and celebrated author whose plays chronicled the explosive fault lines of family and masculinity in the American West, has died. He was 73.
Sam Shepard, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and keen …
Jul 31, 2017 · Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor Sam Shepard died in Kentucky last week following a battle with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, a spokesperson for the family...
Sam Shepard, dead at age 73, was a new kind of artist | AP News
Aug 1, 2017 · NEW YORK (AP) — Old enough to see the rustic world of his childhood disappear, Sam Shepard was a new kind of man who brought a new kind of language to the American stage.
'Bloodline,' 'Steel Magnolias' actor dies - WCPO 9 News
Jul 31, 2017 · Sam Shepard, an award-winning actor and playwright, died on Thursday from complications of ALS according to multiple reports. He was 73 years old. Shepard penned …
Sam Shepard: US actor and playwright dies aged 73 - BBC News
Jul 31, 2017 · 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.
Appreciation: Sam Shepard embodied, examined American myth - AP News
Aug 1, 2017 · Tortured, private and transient in both life and career, Shepard, who died Thursday at age 73, was in some ways the quintessential American: Full of restlessness, contradictions, and mysteries — and as handsome as they come.
'Bloodline,' 'Steel Magnolias' actor dies - Denver7
Jul 31, 2017 · Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, died on Thursday. He was 73. Chris Boneau, a spokesperson for Shepard's family, tells CNN he died of complications of ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease.