2 prospectors : the letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark /
Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark
edited by Chad Hammett
- xv, 383 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Southwestern Writers Collection Series .
"The Southwestern Writers Collection Series originates from the Wittliff Collections, a repository of literature, film, music, and Southwestern and Mexican photography established at Texas State University/San Marcos." Includes index.
Machine generated contents note: Editor's Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Characters -- The Letters -- Caption List -- Index.
"Pulitzer Prize-winning author of plays such as True West, Fool For Love, and Buried Child, and Academy Award-nominated actor in many films, including The Right Stuff, Sam Shepard is arguably America's finest working dramatist. He has said many times that he will never write a memoir. But he has written intensively about his inner life and creative work to his former father-in-law and housemate, Johnny Dark. This book gathers nearly 40 years of their correspondence, which provides the most honest and complete record of Shepard's professional and personal lives that he is ever likely to publish. The book is illustrated with Dark's candid, revealing photographs of Shepard and their mutual family across many years, as well as facsimiles of numerous letters. It makes a perfect companion to Treva Wurmfeld's recent film, Shepard & Dark"--
9780292735828 (hardback)
2013027664
Dramatists, American
PS3569.H394 / Z48 2013
812/.54 B
"The Southwestern Writers Collection Series originates from the Wittliff Collections, a repository of literature, film, music, and Southwestern and Mexican photography established at Texas State University/San Marcos." Includes index.
Machine generated contents note: Editor's Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Characters -- The Letters -- Caption List -- Index.
"Pulitzer Prize-winning author of plays such as True West, Fool For Love, and Buried Child, and Academy Award-nominated actor in many films, including The Right Stuff, Sam Shepard is arguably America's finest working dramatist. He has said many times that he will never write a memoir. But he has written intensively about his inner life and creative work to his former father-in-law and housemate, Johnny Dark. This book gathers nearly 40 years of their correspondence, which provides the most honest and complete record of Shepard's professional and personal lives that he is ever likely to publish. The book is illustrated with Dark's candid, revealing photographs of Shepard and their mutual family across many years, as well as facsimiles of numerous letters. It makes a perfect companion to Treva Wurmfeld's recent film, Shepard & Dark"--
9780292735828 (hardback)
2013027664
Dramatists, American
PS3569.H394 / Z48 2013
812/.54 B