Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new biography of Sam Shepard, an EGOT-level talent as a playwright and performer, traces the career he forged after leaving the ...

I first met Sam Shepard in Chicago at a rehearsal for Steppenwolf’s production of his play “Buried Child” in 1995. At the morning coffee break, over bagels and orange juice, he asked if I liked ...

An exclusive excerpt from a new biography of Shepard reveals how bottomless booze, copious cocaine, a fling with Joni Mitchell, and a collision with an enigmatic superstar proved too much for the ...

A new biography of Sam Shepard, an EGOT-level talent as a playwright and performer, traces the career he forged after leaving the San Gabriel Valley without fully establishing the power of his work.