Posted: Aug 02, 2017 2:45 am
Last modified on Tuesday 1 August 2017 22.00 BST
Sam Shepard, who has died aged 73 from complications of ALS, a form of motor neurone disease, excelled as an actor, screenwriter, playwright and director. In each of those disciplines he challenged and reimagined mythic American archetypes. He wrote nearly 50 plays; the most coruscating of them, such as the Pulitzer prize-winning Buried Child (1978), True West (1980) and Fool for Love (1983), established him as one of the visionaries of US theatre and created a fresh vernacular for exploring the disparity in American life between myth and reality, past and present, fathers and sons.
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/ ... rican-soul
can hardly recall a movie he was in that I did not enjoy his acting even if the movie was marginal.
I had no idea of the play writing let al;one a Pulitzer
