Shepard won the Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for his play Buried Child and was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for The Right Stuff By Sadaf Ahsan Published Jul 31, 2017 1 minute read ...

Entertainment Sam Shepard, America's 'cowboy playwright dramatist,' dead at 73 Writer and actor won Pulitzer Prize for Buried Child in 1979 and Oscar nomination for The Right Stuff ...

Great writer… Well, all right (points up) see you in the next one Sam.” — Matthew McConaughey, visibly shaken after learning about Shepard’s death on a red carpet Monday evening.

For venues and times, see listings. Rating: NNNN You probably know Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and actor who wrote Buried Child and played Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff.

NEW YORK — 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 ...

Sam Shepard, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, died on Thursday. AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File Sam Shepard, actor, playwright and director, has died at the age of 73.

The influential playwright, who was a key writer for the Off Broadway movement, won a Pulitzer Prize for "Buried Child" back in 1979 and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for 1983's "The Right ...

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 ...