'Miracle worker' playwright Gibson dies
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Tony award winning playwright William Gibson, 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, A Mass for the Dead, and A Cry of Players.
He also published a 1954 novel The Cobweb, set at a psychiatric hospital and made into a Hollywood film.
- AAP
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