From a Wall Street Journal review by Brooke Allen headlined “‘True West’ Review: A Life of Sam Shepard, Man and Myth”:

Though he died less than six years ago, at the age of 73, there have already been three biographies of the playwright-actor Sam Shepard. Now we have a fourth: “True West: Sam Shepard’s Life, Work, and Times,” by the veteran rock ’n’ roll reporter Robert Greenfield.