Description
The selected interviews in Conversations with Sam Shepard begin in 1969 when Shepard, already a multiple Obie winner, was twenty-six and end in 2016, eighteen months before his death from complications of ALS at age seventy-three. In the interim, the voice, the writer, and the man evolved, but there are themes that echo throughout these conversations: the indelibility of family; his respect for stage acting versus what he saw as far easier film acting; and the importance of music to his work. He also speaks candidly of his youth in California, his early days as a playwright in New York City, his professionally formative time in London, his interests and influences, the mythology of the American Dream, his own plays, and more. In Conversations with Sam Shepard, the playwright reveals himself in his own words.
About the Author
Jackson R. Bryer is professor emeritus of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is editor of Conversations with Lillian Hellman and Conversations with Thornton Wilder and coeditor (with Mary C. Hartig) of Conversations with August Wilson and (with Ben Siegel) of Conversations with Neil Simon, all published by University Press of Mississippi. Robert M. Dowling is professor of English at Central Connecticut State University. He is author of Eugene O'Neill: A Life in Four Acts, which was named a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for biography in 2015. Mary C. Hartig is coeditor of Conversations with August Wilson and William Inge: Essays and Reminiscences on the Plays and the Man. She is also coeditor of The Facts on File Companion to American Drama.
Book Information
ISBN 9781496836618
Author Jackson R. Bryer
Format Paperback
Page Count 326
Imprint University Press of Mississippi
Publisher University Press of Mississippi
Weight(grams) 333g