William Gibson (playwright)

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William Gibson (b. 13 November 1914) is an American playwright. His most famous play is The Miracle Worker, a story of Helen Keller's childhood education, first produced in 1959. His other works include Two for the Seesaw (1958); the book of the musical version of Clifford Odets's Golden Boy (1964); A Mass for the Dead (1968), an autobiographical family chronicle; Golda's Balcony (1977), a work about the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, which set a record as the longest-running one-woman play in Broadway history on January 2, 2005.[1]; and Monday After the Miracle (1982, in South Africa)

Gibson's wife, Margaret Brenman-Gibson, whom he married in 1940, died in 2004. She was a psychotherapist and was author of a biography of playwright Clifford Odets.

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A list of Gibson's plays can be found here