William Gibson (playwright)
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William Gibson (born 13 November 1914) is a Tony Award-winning American playwright.
Gibson's most famous play is The Miracle Worker (1959), the story of Helen Keller's childhood education, which won him the Tony Award for Best Play. His other works include Two for the Seesaw (1958) and the book for the musical version of Clifford Odets's Golden Boy (1964), both of which earned him Tony nominations; A Mass for the Dead (1968), an autobiographical family chronicle; Golda (1977) and its revised version, Golda's Balcony (2003), a work about the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, which set a record as the longest-running one-woman play in Broadway history [1] on January 2, 2005; and Monday After the Miracle (1982), a continuation of the Keller story.
Gibson married Margaret Brenman-Gibson, a psychotherapist and biographer of Odets, in 1940. She died in 2004.
