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  <name><![CDATA[Sam Shepard]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Sam Shepard is an American artist who worked as an award-winning playwright, writer and actor. His many written works are known for being frank and often absurd, as well as for having an authentic sense of the style and sensibility of the gritty modern American west. He is an actor of the stage and motion pictures; a director of stage and film; author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs; and a musician.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Fort Sheridan, Illinois</hometown>  <born_at>11/06/1943</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Sam Shepard: Seven Plays]]></title>
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  <published>1981</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[True West]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sam Shepard]]></name>
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  <published>1981</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Fool for Love and Other Plays]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sam Shepard]]></name>
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  <published>1984</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Buried Child]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sam Shepard]]></name>
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  <published>1979</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Cruising Paradise: Tales]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sam Shepard]]></name>
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  <published>1996</published>  
  
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        <book id="207276">
  <title><![CDATA[Motel Chronicles]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Sam Shepard]]></name>
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  <published>1982</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Fool for Love]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sam Shepard]]></name>
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  <published>1984</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[A Lie of the Mind.]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sam Shepard]]></name>
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  <published>1987</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Great Dream of Heaven: Stories]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sam Shepard]]></name>
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  <published>2002</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Curse of the Starving Class.]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sam Shepard]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.99</average_rating>
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  <published>1998</published>  
  
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