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 aged 73. Shepard, though famously a man of few words, produced 44 plays and numerous books, memoirs and short stories. His 1979 play, Buried Child, won the Pulitzer for dramaSam Shepard, playwright and actor, dies age…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PM on July 31, 2017