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Rural America: Where Sam Shepard's roots ran deepest

  • Written by John J. Winters, Adjunct Professor of English, Bridgewater State University
imageThe Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard died of complications from ALS on July 27, 2017, at his home in Kentucky.Jakub Mosur/AP

When Sam Shepard died on July 27 the world lost one of the greatest playwrights of the past half-century. He was an artist renowned for bravely plumbing his own life for material, spinning much of his own pain...

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