Sam Shepard, celebrated playwright and actor dies at 73 " video report by Guardian Staff

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…

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