Shepard offers 'First Person' view of his final days by Elisabeth Vincentelli, Elisabeth Vincentelli

It is impossible to dissociate Sam Shepard's latest and last book, "Spy of the First Person," from how and when it was written. Impaired by ALS " Lou Gehrig's disease " the dramatist and actor was not able to put words to paper by himself, so he dictated to his sisters and daughter. His longtime friend Patti Smith helped him edit the transcripts into a book. And now, a few months after Shepard died in July, at 73, "S…

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