Cooper and Sam Reese Sheppard (Penguin Books, 1997). NOVA Online, which added all entries after 1996, has no opinion either for or against any of the details described in this chronology.

Sam Shepard (born November 5, 1943) is an American playwright, actor, and television and film director. He is author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the ...

Yet none of them can claim Shepard’s fire. The man had something. He gnawed that bone until it broke. Sam Shepard, dead at 73. Long may he live in repertory.