Sam Shepard
American playwright who mapped the mythology and violence of the American West in plays that fused realism with surrealism and rock energy. Buried Child won the Pulitzer Prize; True West and Curse of the Starving Class complete his great family trilogy. He was also a film actor and novelist.
Works
- Buried ChildGrotesque American family drama centered on incest, infanticide, and agricultural decline
- True WestEscalating battle between two brothers in California living room over screenwriting crime
- Curse of the Starving ClassDysfunction in rural American family trapped by poverty, violence, and desperation
- Fool for LoveIntense romance between drifter and woman at edge hotel in Mojave Desert
- A Lie of the MindFractured family drama spanning generations of violence, love, and betrayal