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Sam Shepard

Born Samuel Shepard Rogers in Fort Sheridan, Illinois, November 5, 1943. Educated at Duarte High School, California, graduated 1960; Mount San Antonio Junior College, Walnut, California, 1960-61

Stage Works

1. Cowboys (produced 1964)
2. The Rock Garden (produced 1964; excerpt produced in Oh! Calcutta!, 1969)
3. Up To Thursday (produced 1965).
4. Dog (produced 1965).
5. Rocking Chair (produced 1965).
6. Chicago (produced 1965).
7. Icarus's Mother (produced 1965).
8. 4-H Club (produced 1965).
9. Fourteen Hundred Thousand (produced 1966).
10. Red Cross (produced 1966).
11. La Turista (produced 1967)
12. Melodrama Play (produced 1967)
13. Forensic and the Navigators (produced 1967)
14. The Holy Ghostly (produced 1969)
15. The Unseen Hand (produced 1969)
16. Operation Sidewinder (produced 1970)
17. Shaved Splits (produced 1970)
18. Cowboy Mouth, with Patti Smith (produced 1971)
19. Mad Dog Blues (produced 1971)
20. Back Bog Beast Bait (produced 1971)
21. The Tooth of Crime (produced 1972)
22. Blue Bitch (televised 1972; produced 1973).
23. Nightwalk, with Megan Terry and Jean-Claude van Itallie (produced 1973)
24. Little Ocean (produced 1974).
25. Geography of a Horse Dreamer (produced 1974)
26. Action (produced 1974)
27. Killer's Head (produced 1975)
28. Angel City (produced 1976)
29. Suicide in B Flat (produced 1976)
30. The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing His Wife (produced 1976)
31. Curse of the Starving Class (produced 1976)
32. Inacoma (produced 1977).
33. Buried Child (produced 1978)
34. Seduced (produced 1978)
35. Tongues, with Joseph Chaikin, music by Shepard, Skip LaPlante, and Harry Mann (produced 1978)
36. Savage/Love, with Joseph Chaikin, music by Shepard, Skip LaPlante, and Harry Mann (produced 1979)
37. True West (produced 1980)
38. Jackson's Dance, with Jacques Levy (produced 1980).
39. Superstitions, music by Shepard and Catherine Stone (produced 1983).
40. Fool For Love (produced 1983)
41. Paris, Texas (screenplay), with Wim Wenders, edited by Chris Sievernich. 1984.
42. A Lie of the Mind (produced 1985)
43. The War in Heaven (broadcast 1985; produced 1987)
44. Hawk Moon (produced 1989).
45. States of Shock (produced 1991)
46. Eyes For Consuela
47. Simpatico
    

SCREENPLAYS:

1. Me and My Brother, with Robert Frank, 1969;
2. Zabriskie Point, with others, 1970;
3. Ringaleevio, 1971;
4. Paris, Texas, 1984;
5. Fool for Love, 1985;
6. Far North, 1988.

RADIO PLAY:

• The War in Heaven, 1985.

TELEVISION PLAY:

• Blue Bitch, 1972.

OTHER

• Hawk Moon: A Book of Short Stories, Poems, and Monologues. 1973.
• Rolling Thunder Logbook. 1977.
• Motel Chronicles, 1985.
• Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard: Letters and Texts 1972-1984, edited by Barry V. Daniels. 1989.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

• Ten Modern American Playwrights by Kimball King, 1982.

CRITICAL STUDIES:

• American Dreams: The Imagination of Sam Shepard edited by Bonnie Marranca, 1981;
• Sam Shepard, Arthur Kopit, and the Off Broadway Theater by Doris Auerbach, 1982;
• Inner Landscapes: The Theater of Sam Shepard by Ron Mottram, 1984;
• Sam Shepard by Don Shewey, 1985;
• Sam Shepard by Vivian M. Patraka and Mark Siegel, 1985;
• Sam Shepard: The Life and Work of an American Dreamer by Ellen Oumano, 1986;
• Sam Shepard's Metaphorical Stages by Lynda Hart, 1987;
• Sam Shepard: A Casebook by Kimball King, 1988;
• File on Shepard edited by Simon Trussler, 1989.