Sam Shepard marubucin wasan kwaikwayo ne, ɗan wasan kwaikwayo, kuma marubuci ɗan Amurka wanda ya shahara da gudummawar da ya bayar a fagen wasan kwaikwayo na Amurka. Ya rubuta wasannin kwaikwayo sama da 40, da dama daga cikinsu sun samu lambobin yabo, sannan kuma ya yi fina-finai da kuma kan mataki. Har ila yau, ya kasance ƙwararren marubuci, litattafai, rubuce-rubuce, da abubuwan tunawa. Baya ga aikinsa na fasaha, Shepard kuma ya kasance mai kishin doki kuma ya zauna a wani wurin kiwon dabbobi a Kentucky na shekaru da yawa. Shepard ya rasu a ranar 27 ga Yuli, 2017, yana da shekaru 73 a duniya.