Sam Shepard
Biography
Samuel Shepard Rogers III was a renowned American playwright and actor whose career spanned half a century. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child and received numerous Obie Awards for writing and directing. A master of bleak, poetic, surrealist elements, Shepard's plays often featured rootless characters living on the outskirts of American society, earning him a reputation as one of America's greatest playwrights.
