Sam Shepard
Playwright, Author, Actor, Director.

Website dedicated to Shepard.
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/...d/shepard.html

2001 article
http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2...ard/index.html

Purely coincidentally he hit the news in mid-Feb, pleaded guilty to a DUI in Illinois.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entert...,6533375.story