In 2024, we've experienced the loss of several luminaries in the world of entertainment. These beloved figures—actors, comedians, musicians, singers, and coaches—have touched our lives with their talent, passion, and dedication. They've left an indelible mark on our hearts and shaped the world of entertainment in ways that will continue to inspire and influence generations to come. Among the incredible actors who bid farewell this year, we mourn the loss of a true chameleon who effortlessly.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
William Gibson (playwright) died he was 94
William Gibson playwright has died he was 94. He was a Tony Award-winning American playwright and novelist. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1938. (November 13, 1914 – November 25, 2008)
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 Dinny and the Witches (1948, revised 1961), in which a jazz musician incurs the wrath of three Shakespearean witches by blowing a riff which stops time; the Tony Award-nominated Two for the Seesaw (1958), a recounting of which appeared the following year in Gibson's nonfiction book The Seesaw Log; the book for the musical version of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy (1964), which earned him yet another Tony nomination; A Mass for the Dead (1968), an autobiographical family chronicle; A Cry of Players (1968), a speculative account of the life of young William Shakespeare; Goodly Creatures (1980), about Puritan dissident Anne Hutchinson; Monday After the Miracle (1982), a continuation of the Keller story; and Golda (1977), a work about the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, which in its revised version Golda's Balcony (2003) set a record as the longest-running one-woman play in Broadway history on January 2, 2005.[1]
In 1954 he published a novel, The Cobweb, set in a psychiatric hospital resembling the Menninger Clinic. In 1955, the novel was adapted as a movie by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Gibson contributed to an episode of the popular television series The X-Files and continued to write into his nineties. In an interview in 2003 he said: “I’ve always found the business of writing has helped me to live.”
He married Margaret Brenman, a psychotherapist and biographer of Clifford Odets, in 1940. She died in 2004. He is survived by his two sons.
William Gibson, playwright, was born on November 13, 1914. He died on November 25, 2008, aged 94
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