Sam Shepard, paragon playwright of the American West, was born to roam. With a father who was an Army officer and sometime farmer and a mother who was a teacher, Shepard — born in 1943, the oldest of three — spent his childhood bouncing around the heartland. This would later inform his writing, which often explored…
Sam Shepard, Oscar-Nominated Actor and Pulitzer Prize-Winning playwright, Dies at 73
