Although he brought a laconic cowboy style to his screen roles, Sam Shepard wore a number of different hats: Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor, screenwriter and director.

This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. Sam Shepard is a playwright whose life and work has always been linked to the American West. Much of his writing is about the west and many of his memorable ...

Two new books take up that most durable of American subjects -- the uneasy space between what we imagine ourselves to be and what the record shows. In "Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard," ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — No one really got to know Sam Shepard – and that was the way he seemed to like it. Despite dozens of blatantly personal plays to his name, movie stardom and the spotlight of ...