Select Bibliography

Books

Bottoms, Stephen J. The Theatre of Sam Shepard: States of Crisis. Cambridge University Press, 1998.

DeRose, David J. Sam Shepard. New York: Twayne, 1992.

Hart, Lynda. Sam Shepard’s Metaphorical Stages. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1987.

Mottram, Ron. Inner Landscapes: The Theater of Sam Shepard. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1984.

Wade, Leslie A. Sam Shepard and the American Theatre. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.

Collections

Callens, Johan (ed.). Sam Shepard: Between the Margin and the Center. Parts I and II. New York:
Harwood Academic, 1998.

Marranca, Bonnie (ed.). American Dreams: The Imagination of Sam Shepard. New York:
Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1981.

Sam Shepard and Contemporary American Drama. Spec. issue of Modern Drama 36 (1993): 1-166.
*Includes an article by Prof. Gary Grant.*
Wilcox, Leonard (ed.). Rereading Shepard: Contemporary Critical Essays on the Plays of Sam Shepard.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.