Sam Shepard: References & Edit History
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Leslie A. Wade, Sam Shepard and the American Theatre (1997); Stephen J. Bottoms, Theatre of Sam Shepard: States of Crisis (1998); Matthew Roudané (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard (2002); Carol Rosen, Sam Shepard (2004).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anniversary information added. | Jul 23, 2026 | ||
| Modified link of Web site: Fresh Air Archive - Sam Shepard. | Jun 08, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: CNN - Sam Shepard could do everything. | Apr 18, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Nov 01, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: NPR - Fresh Air Remembers Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright and Actor Sam Shepard. | Oct 28, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Santa Fe Institute - Sam Shepard. | Sep 05, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fresh Air Archive - Sam Shepard. | Mar 20, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning - Sam Shepard. | May 31, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 08, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Guardian - Obituary of Sam Shepard. | Jan 05, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Emmys - Biography of Sam Shepard. | Feb 01, 2019 | ||
| Changed "Days out of Days" to "Day out of Days." | Dec 13, 2017 | ||
| Added information about his death and noted the publication of his final work, Spy of the First Person. | Dec 07, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Turner Classic Movies - Sam Shepard. | Oct 31, 2017 | ||
| Changed his death location from "Kentucky" to "Midway, Kentucky." | Aug 03, 2017 | ||
| He died on July 27, 2017. | Jul 31, 2017 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Dec 21, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: Theatre Database - Biography of Sam Shepard. | May 14, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: AllMovie - Sam Shepard. | May 14, 2015 | ||
| Noted the release of Cold in July (2014). | May 23, 2014 | ||
| Noted the release of August: Osage County (2013). | Dec 20, 2013 | ||
| Noted the release of Out of the Furnace (2013). | Dec 06, 2013 | ||
| Added the play Heartless. Clarified that dates of plays are years of first production and revised some such dates. Noted film adaptations of Curse of the Starving Class and Simpatico. | Aug 30, 2012 | ||
| Added photograph. | Aug 03, 2012 | ||
| Revised acting credits, including the addition of the film Blackthorn (2011). | Oct 07, 2011 | ||
| Replaced the movie Inhale (2010) with the more-significant movie Fair Game (2010). | Nov 05, 2010 | ||
| Added the movie Inhale (2010) and the book Days out of Days (2010). | Oct 21, 2010 | ||
| Added three of Shepard's more recent plays to the article, and added his Academy Award nomination for his role in The Right Stuff. | Nov 03, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: Official Site of Sam Shepard. | Nov 05, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Gary M. Grant - The Sam Shepard Web Site. | Nov 05, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Pegasos - Biography of Sam Shepard. | Nov 05, 2008 | ||
| Bibliography revised and updated. | Feb 14, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Feb 12, 2008 | ||
| Article revised. | Jan 29, 1999 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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