Literary Criticism:
- Shepard, Sam (Drama Criticism)
- Shepard, Sam (Vol. 6) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
- Shepard, Sam (Vol. 17) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
- Shepard, Sam (Vol. 4) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
- Shepard, Sam (Vol. 169) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
Encyclopedia:
- Shepard, Sam (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
- Shepard, Sam (Samuel Shepard Rogers, Jr.) (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
Calendar of Literary Facts:
- Sam Shepard receives Obie Award for The Tooth of Crime
- Sam Shepard receives Obie Awards for Forensic and the Navigators and Melodrama Play
- Sam Shepard receives Obie Award for La Turista
- Sam Shepard receives Obie Awards for best plays of the Off-Broadway season for Chicago, Icarus's Mother, and Red Cross
- Sam Shepard publishes Chicago
- Sam Shepard is born
- Sam Shepard receives Obie Award for Fool for Love
- Sam Shepard receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for Buried Child
- Sam Shepard receives Obie Award for Buried Child
- Sam Shepard's Buried Child is produced
- Sam Shepard receives Obie Award for Curse of the Starving Class
- Sam Shepard receives Obie Award for Action
