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.
"From the Trade Paperback edition."
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