Sam Shepard, the bard of America's flat highways, wide-open spaces and wounding, dysfunctional families, has died at the age of 73 in his home in Kentucky from complications from Lou Gehrig's disease. Born in Fort Sheridan, Ill. in 1943, the once-prolific playwright was the author of such seminal...
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 12:55PM on July 31, 2017