Sam Shepard : Seven Plays (Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, The Tooth of Crime, La Turista, Tongues, Savage Love, True West)
Sam Shepard is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of more than forty-five plays. He was a finalist for the W. H. Smith Literary Award for his story collectionGreat Dream of Heaven, and he has also written the story collectionCruising Paradise, two collections of prose pieces,Motel ChroniclesandHawk Moon, andRolling Thunder Logbook, a diary of Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Review tour. As an actor he has appeared in more than thirty films, and he received an Oscar nomination in 1984 for his performance inThe Right Stuff. His screenplay forParis, Texaswon the Grand Jury Prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, and he wrote and directed the filmFar Northin 1988. Shepard's plays, eleven of which have won Obie Awards, includeBuried Child, The Late Henry Moss, Simpatico, Curse of the Starving Class, True West,Fool for Love, andA Lie of the Mind, which won a New York Drama Desk Award. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Shepard received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy in 1992, and in 1994 he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.