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Sam Shepard

1943 - 2017

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Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, and author whose career spanned half a century. He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, the most by any writer or director. Shepard received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film The Right Stuff. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sam Shepard is the 865th most popular writer (up from 1,033rd in 2019), the 1,225th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,198th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular American Writer.

Sam Shepard is an American playwright, actor, and author. He is most famous for his plays "Buried Child" and "True West."

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Among writers, Sam Shepard ranks 865 out of 7,302. Before him are Al-Zamakhshari, Georges Bernanos, Yanka Kupala, Stephen Covey, Jens Peter Jacobsen, and Vātsyāyana. After him are Zhang Sanfeng, Arthur Adamov, Periander, Douglas Adams, Georg Brandes, and Thietmar of Merseburg.

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Among people born in 1943, Sam Shepard ranks 69. Before him are Esma Redžepova, Andreas Baader, Arthur B. McDonald, Masaru Emoto, Terrence Malick, and Finn E. Kydland. After him are Neale Donald Walsch, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Tom Holland, Wolfgang Overath, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, and Lucio Dalla. Among people deceased in 2017, Sam Shepard ranks 57. Before him are Emma Morano, Jonathan Demme, Malcolm Young, John Surtees, Oliver Smithies, and Adnan Khashoggi. After him are Hiroto Muraoka, Danielle Darrieux, Elsa Martinelli, Harry Dean Stanton, Graham Taylor, and Peter Mansfield.

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Among people born in United States, Sam Shepard ranks 1,225 out of 20,380. Before him are Bette Midler (1945), Kirstie Alley (1951), Murray Rothbard (1926), Colin Powell (1937), Roberta Flack (1937), and Stephen Covey (1932). After him are Phoebe Cates (1963), George F. Kennan (1904), George Papandreou (1952), Edward B. Lewis (1918), Lizzie Magie (1866), and Scott Joplin (1868).

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