2 prospectors
Subtitle: the letters of Sam Shepard & Johnny Dark
By: edited by Chad Hammett
Contributors: Shepard, Sam, 1943-; Dark, Johnny, 1940-; Hammett, Chad, 1972- editor
Edition: First edition.
Series: Southwestern Writers Collection series
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780292735828
Subjects: Correspondence; American Dramatists; American Authors
Other titles: Two prospectors :; Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark
Work titles: Correspondence
Description: "Pulitzer Prize-winning author of plays such as True West, Fool For Love, and Buried Child, and Academy Award-nominated actor in many films, including The Right Stuff, Sam Shepard is arguably America's finest working dramatist. He has said many times that he will never write a memoir. But he has written intensively about his inner life and creative work to his former father-in-law and housemate, Johnny Dark. This book gathers nearly 40 years of their correspondence, which provides the most honest and complete record of Shepard's professional and personal lives that he is ever likely to publish. The book is illustrated with Dark's candid, revealing photographs of Shepard and their mutual family across many years, as well as facsimiles of numerous letters. It makes a perfect companion to Treva Wurmfeld's recent film, Shepard & Dark"--
Notes: "The Southwestern Writers Collection Series originates from the Wittliff Collections, a repository of literature, film, music, and Southwestern and Mexican photography established at Texas State University/San Marcos"--Title page verso.

Text on lining papers.

Editor's introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Characters -- The letters.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Editor's Introduction; title: Acknowledgments; title: Characters; title: The Letters; title: Caption List; title: Index.