Sam Shepard is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of more than forty-five
plays. He was a finalist for the W. H. Smith Literary Award for his
story collection "Great Dream of Heaven," " "and he has also written the
story collection "Cruising Paradise," " "two collections of prose
pieces, "Motel Chronicles "and "Hawk Moon," " "and "Rolling Thunder
Logbook," " "a diary of Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Review tour. As
an actor he has appeared in more than thirty films, including "Days of
Heaven," " Crimes of the Heart," " Steel Magnolias," " The Pelican
Brief," " Snow Falling on Cedars," " All the Pretty Horses," " Black
Hawk Down," " "and "The Notebook."" "He received an Oscar nomination in
1984 for his performance in "The Right Stuff." His screenplay for
"Paris, Texas" won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1984 Cannes Film
Festival, and he wrote and directed the film "Far North "in 1988 and
co-wrote and starred in Wim Wenders' "Don’t Come Knocking "in 2005.
Shepard’s plays, eleven of which have won Obie Awards, include "The God
of Hell," " The Late Henry Moss," "Simpatico," "Curse of the Starving
Class," " True West," " Fool for Love," and "A Lie of the Mind," "
"which won a New York Drama Desk Award. A member of the American Academy
of Arts and Letters, Shepard received the Gold Medal for Drama from the
Academy in 1992, and in 1994 he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of
Fame. He lives in New York.
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