Sam Shepard, 'Poet Laureate Of America's Emotional Badlands,' Dies At 73

Sam Shepard in 2011.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, Shepard cut a towering presence in theater and cinema. He died last week of complications from ALS, a family spokesman says.

(Image credit: Charles Sykes/AP)



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