name: Sam Shepard
birth_date: 1943-11-06 00:00:00
death_date: 2017-07-30 00:00:00
genres: Theatre, Literature & Fiction
influences: Samuel Beckett
avg_rating: 3.85
ratings_count: 44512
about: Sam Shepard was 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 was 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.