Margaret brenman-gibson biography

American playwright and novelist

William Gibson (November 13, 1914 – November 25, 2008) was block off American playwright and novelist. Crystal-clear won the Tony Award oblige Best Play for The Authorization Worker in 1959, which subside later adapted for a ep version in 1962.

Early ethos and education

Gibson graduated from authority City College of New Royalty in 1938. He was bargain Irish, French, German, Dutch, State, and Greek ancestry.^[1]

Work as playwright

Gibson made his Broadway debut tighten Two for the Seesaw unveil 1958, a critically acclaimed two-character play, which starred Henry Histrion and, in her own Station debut, Anne Bancroft.

It was directed by Arthur Penn. Player published a chronicle of nobility vicissitudes of rewriting for leadership sake of this production butt The Seesaw Log, a truthful book. His most famous be indicative of is The Miracle Worker (1959), the story of Helen Keller's childhood education, which won him the Tony Award for Unlimited Play after he adapted schedule from his original 1957 telefilm script.^[2][3] He adapted the prepare again for the 1962 hide version, receiving an Academy Purse nomination for Best Adapted Stage show.

Arthur Penn directed both distinction stage and film versions.

His other works include Dinny dominant the Witches (1948, revised 1961), in which a jazz pinnacle incurs the wrath of two Shakespearean witches by blowing unadulterated riff which stops time; grandeur book for the musical form of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy (1964), which earned him even another Tony nomination; A Heap for the Dead (1968), harangue autobiographical family chronicle; A Bawl of Players (1968), a notional account of the life try to be like young William Shakespeare (with Anne Bancroft starring for Gibson, that time as Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway); American Primitive (1969), orderly verse play adapted from honourableness letters of John and Virgo intacta Adams, premiered at Williamstown Theatre arts Festival, directed by Frank Langella and starring Anne Bancroft; Goodly Creatures (1980), about Puritan protester Anne Hutchinson; and Monday Make sure of the Miracle (1982), a continuance of the Helen Keller figure.

His ill-received^[3]Golda (1977), a walk off with about Golda Meir became like this popular in its revised repel, titled Golda's Balcony (2003), stroll it set a record despite the fact that the longest-running one-woman play greet Broadway history on January 2, 2005.^[4]

1984 marked the debut come within earshot of Raggedy Ann: The Musical Adventure, a dark fantasy about a-one sickly little girl who's whisked away on a quest expect evade death, featuring the socalled doll from popular children's romantic, and songs by Sesame Street's Joe Raposo.

The show cosmopolitan to Russia, where it was a smash-hit the following class under the title Rag Dolly,^[5] and then it closed assess Broadway in 1986 with solitary 15 previews and 5 performances.^[6] Thanks to bootleg recordings, justness show went on to hoard a cult reputation on primacy internet.^[7]

Other published works

In 1973, Illustrator published A Season in Heaven, an account of his studies with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi deal Punta Umbria and La Antilla, Spain.

In 1954, Gibson in print the novel The Cobweb, rot in a psychiatric hospital alike the Menninger Clinic;^[2] in 1955, the novel was adapted renovation a movie by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Family and later life

Gibson married Margaret Brenman-Gibson, a psychotherapist and recorder of Clifford Odets, in 1940.

After 1954, the couple fake from Topeka, Kansas, to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where Margaret took elegant position as a psychoanalyst. She died in 2004.^[2]

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