'Miracle Worker' playwright Gibson dies: funeral homeTony award winning playwright William Gibson (person) William Gibson - Author of cyberpunk novels such as Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Virtual Light (1993). Neuromancer, a novel about a computer hacker/criminal "cowboy" of the future helping to free an artificial intelligence from its , most famous for the Broadway hit "The Miracle Worker," has died at the age of 94. Gibson died in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, according to a representative of the Finnerty and Stevens funeral home. "The Miracle Worker" first played on Broadway in 1959, telling the real life story of Helen Keller, a deaf and blind woman who became a role model for millions of people. This was the most famous of Gibson's works, which also included "Two for the Seesaw (language) SEESAW - An early system on the IBM 701. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. ," "A Mass for the Dead," and "A Cry of Players." He also published a 1954 novel "The Cobweb (1) A Web page that has not been updated in a long time. (2) A Web page that is rarely downloaded because the references to it are obscure or the subject is simply uninteresting. ," set at a psychiatric hospital psychiatric hospital n. A hospital for the care and treatment of patients affected with acute or chronic mental illness. Also called mental hospital. and made into a Hollywood film. 
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