Literary Figure Sam Shephard

Name: Sam Shepard Rogers
BirthDate:November 5, 1943
BirthPlace:Fort Sherida, Illinois

Besides being considered one of the best Americans greatest living playwrights, haned Sam Shepard. Which is an achived actor, director, screen writer, and musician. samuel Shepard Rogers IV on Noovember 5, 1943 in Font Sherida, Illinois. Shepard was the oldest of three children, his family moved a llot before setting in Duarte, California, Located outside of pasadena, where his childhood experiences informed themes that mark much of his later playwriting. where he lived he said Duarte was a "weird accumulation of things, a strange kind of melting pot". Shepard's father was an alcaholic; and Shepard was often the target of his father's anger. In high school he began acting and writing poetry, and he also worked as a stable hand at a horse ranch in Chico from 1958-1960.

Shepard was thinking of becoming a veterinarian, he studied agriculture at Mount Anthony. Junior Collage for a year. Then he joined a traveling theater group, named the Bishop's Compang Repertory Players he joined them and left home. He toured with them during 1962-1963, he moved to New York City and worked as a bus boy at the Village Gate in Greenwich Village. He married actress O-Lan Jones Dark on Nov. 5,1969, with whom he had one son named Jesse Mojo Shepard and divorced in 1984.

• 1971 he wrote THE TOOTH OF CRIME, BLUE BICTH, LITTLE OCEAN