Author - Sam Shepard's biography

Sam Shepard’s biography

Samuel Shepard Rogers was born on the 5th of November 1943 in Fort Sheridan, IL, USA. 
Since his dad was an army officer, and a Second World War bomber, he spent his childhood moving from base to base, until they have settled down on a farm in Duarte, CA.  After finishing the high school, Sam attended a college, he wanted to become an agricultural engineer, but he abandoned the school very soon. He abandoned the school because he fell in love with the book ‘Waiting for Godot’ and decided to become an actor.  So he joined a travelling theatre instead. Later on he also worked as a rock band drummer, stable hand, herdsman, orange picker, sheep shearer, bus boy and writer before becoming a playwright in New York in 1964.

Together with his band Holy Modal Rounders he recorded four discs of country-rock music in the end of the sixties. One of their songs was a part of the Easy Rider movie. The author is very accomplished person; in 1978 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Buried Child.

His acting career was pretty interesting as well. He took his first big role, Chuck the farmer,  in Days of Heaven. Although this was his first big role he was nominated for an Oscar Prize for it in 1983. In 2007 he acted in a movie called The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford together with Brad Pitt. While filming Frances, Sam fell in love with the protagonist Jessica Lange, who became his wife and they have two kids now.