Playwright, actor and director Sam Shepard dies at 73 by Sopan Deb / The New York Times

Sam Shepard, the celebrated avant-garde playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, died at his home in Kentucky on Thursday of complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, a spokesman for the Shepard family announced Monday. He was 73.

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