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The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: “Buried Child”
1979 Pulitzer winner “Buried Child” by Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard
Buried Child Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buried_Child
Sam Shepard: Seven Plays: Buried Child, Curse of the Starving Class, the Tooth of Crime, La Turista, Tongues, Savage Love, True West
https://bookshop.org/p/books/sam-shepard-seven-plays-buried-child-curse-of-the-starving-class-the-tooth-of-crime-la-turista-tongues-savage-love-true-west-sam-shepard/11420193?ean=9780553346114
“True West: Sam Shepard’s Life, Work, and Times” by Robert Greenfield
https://bookshop.org/p/books/true-west-sam-shepard-s-life-work-and-times-robert-greenfield/18640943?ean=9780525575955
“Sam Shepard: A Life” by John J. Winters
https://www.amazon.com/Sam-Shepard-John-J-Winters/dp/1619029731/
“Edward Albee Reviews Sam Shepard’s ‘Icarus’s Mother,’ 1965” The Village Voice
https://www.villagevoice.com/2009/06/17/from-the-archives-edward-albee-reviews-sam-shepards-icaruss-mother-1965/
“Word of Mouth” by Elizabeth Hardwick, The New York Review of Books
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1967/04/06/word-of-mouth/
“The Pathfinder” by John Lahr, “The New Yorker”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/02/08/the-pathfinder
“Stage: Sam Shepard Offers ‘Buried Child’” review of original 1978 production by Richard Eder, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/07/archives/stage-sam-shepard-offers-buried-child-a-rootless-family.html
Sam Shepard obituary by Ryan Gilbey, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/aug/01/sam-shepard-obituary
Ethan Hawke on a new biography of the elusive Sam Shepard, The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/04/11/true-west-sam-shepard-biography-ethan-hawke-robert-greenfield/
“Sam Shepard: Mystery and Magic, Freedom and Fire” (including a tribute by Suzan-Lori Parks), American Theatre
https://www.americantheatre.org/2017/08/04/sam-shepard-mystery-and-magic-freedom-and-fire/
“My Buddy: Patti Smith Remembers Sam Shepard” The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/my-buddy-sam-shepard
“Coyote” (Joni Mitchell’s song inspired by Shepard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWUgPIQNgGo
NPR’s Fresh Air Interview
https://www.npr.org/2017/08/04/541602156/fresh-air-remembers-pulitzer-prize-winning-playwright-and-actor-sam-shepard
Buried Child, the New Group’s 2016 production
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX_mv54XY4U
Stalking Himself (a documentary about Shepard)
https://archive.org/details/samshepardstalkinghimself1998
Shepard Reading the poem “When You Die”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XYQ2NsbMy8
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Broadway & Me
Jan Simpson is a theater journalist who writes the blog Broadway& Me and hosts the BroadwayRadio podcasts Stagecraft and All The Drama. She has twice served as a Pulitzer Prize juror.
