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Most accounts of Sam Shepard's life tell the same story. A Beckett-inspired young man from California named Samuel Shepard Rogers IV (born November 5, 1943) heads for New York in the 1960s and remakes himself as Sam Shepard, the offbeat, off-Broadway playwright. After a three-year relocation to England in the early 1970s, Shepard returned to the States and shed his one-act rock-and-roll guise, reinventing himself, in one of the most interesting second acts in American life, as Eugene O'Neill's heir by writing masterly family dramas such as True West (1980) and the 1979 Pulitzer Prize winner Buried Child. His screen career, which began in earnest with a starring role in Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (1978), went on to include appearances in more than forty films and an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff (1983). His former father-in-law Johnny Dark is rarely more than a footnote in this story, usually mentioned in passing alongside a reference to Shepard's first wife, O-Lan, or in connection with his photographs for Motel Chronicles. Dark, though, is much more than a minor character in Shepard's biography. He has been the playwright's con

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Author

Sam Shepard (editor); Johnny Dark (editor); Chad Hammett (editor)

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780292754218

Category

performing arts

Subjects

Literary Collections, Literary Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.15 / 5 (56 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14