Pulitzer-winning playwright Sam Shepard dead at 73

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

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 American West, has died. He was 73.

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