Sam Shepard

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born

November 06, 1943 in Fort Sheridan, Illinois, The United States

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male

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Literature & Fiction, Theater

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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.

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Books by Sam Shepard

Average rating: 3.93 · 7,181 ratings · 364 reviews · 62 distinct works

	Seven Plays: Buried Child / Curse of the Starving Class / The Tooth of Crime / La Turista / Tongues / Savage Love / True West by Sam Shepard, Richard Gilman (Introduction) 4.16 avg rating — 1,495 ratings — published 1981 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Buried Child 3.87 avg rating — 1,353 ratings — published 1979 — 6 editions	My rating:
	True West 3.91 avg rating — 1,253 ratings — published 1988 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Fool for Love and Other Plays by Sam Shepard, Ross Wetzsteon (Introduction) 4.06 avg rating — 774 ratings — published 1984 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Fool for Love 3.77 avg rating — 301 ratings — published 1983 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Cruising Paradise 3.95 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Motel Chronicles 4.10 avg rating — 231 ratings — published 1982 — 4 editions	My rating:
	A Lie of the Mind 3.68 avg rating — 253 ratings — published 1986 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Curse of the Starving Class 3.82 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Great Dream of Heaven 3.78 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 1999 — 13 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Sam Shepard

“I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me
I believe in my dance-- And my destiny”
― Sam Shepard

tags: disguises , idenity , lies , lying , masks , personality

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“I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise.”
― Sam Shepard, Cruising Paradise

tags: automobile , car , paradise , roads

5 people liked it

“She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away.”
― Sam Shepard

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