Playwright and actor Sam Shepard died on July 27, 2017 of ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 73 years old. Shepard won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child. His tales of families coming apart at the seams leapt of the stage with an urgency and electricity rarely seen in the theater before or since. Shepard also found success as an actor in Hollywood, notably in 1984's The Right Stuff, in which he played Chuck Yeager. Shepard was nominated for an Academy Award for the role. As is evident in the quotes below, Shepard was interested in authenticity and immediacy, and had a lot of interesting things to say about art and life. Here are eleven vocabulary words from the words and work of Sam Shepard.
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