Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor and celebrated author whose plays chronicled the explosive fault lines of family and masculinity in the American West, has ...

Just as he had first done as a nineteen-year-old in 1962, when he went to visit his grandparents in Illinois, Sam Shepard was again crossing America on a train. Now, however, he was, in his words, “On ...

Philip Kaufman recalls the playwright and actor, who received an Oscar nomination for playing legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager. By Philip Kaufman, as told to Gregg Kilday In the early ‘80s, ...

"We compliment each other. It's not that you need to be the same, it's just that you need to fit." Oscope Labs has revealed a new trailer for the documentary film Shepard & Dark, which originally ...

Héctor Tobar is a son of Los Angeles, a city of “perpetual cultural mixing.” Here, he guides readers through the books and writers that cut through the city’s layers. By Héctor Tobar “True West” is a ...

Sam Shepard, the acclaimed playwright and actor, died Thursday at his home in Kentucky from complications related to Lou Gehrig’s disease. In October 2011, Times movie critic Mark Olsen spoke to ...

SPY OF THE FIRST PERSON, by Sam Shepard. Alfred A. Knopf, 82 pp., $18. It is impossible to dissociate Sam Shepard’s latest and last book, “Spy of the First Person,” from how and when it was written.

Spy of the First Person, a final autobiographical work of fiction by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actor and author Sam Shepard, will be released on Dec. 5. Shepard completed the book shortly ...

In the black-and-white photo, Richard Gere is stiff-backed, his muscles tensed, booted feet flat on the slightly raised platform. He’s wearing jeans and a T-shirt, the short sleeves rolled up. Leather ...

The Pulitzer-winning playwright of 'Buried Child' and 'Fool for Love' forged an indelible legacy as a chronicler of broken dreams and fractured families in the ravaged wasteland that was once the ...

In 2000, when Sam Jones graduated from Northwood University, it appeared that his basketball career was over. The former Shepard standout accepted a position to oversee an automotive distribution ...