In the 1880s, when Gibson’s play is set, the United States was still reeling from the impact of the Civil War, during which the Northern states battled with the Southern, slaveholding states. He married Margaret Brenman-Gibson, a world-famous psychotherapist whose influence can be detected in Gibson’s plays, which often have overt psychological themes. Gibson never wrote another play that matched the success of his first two Broadway productions, but he remained a prolific writer until his death in 2008. Both plays were later adapted into successful films. Gibson followed his Broadway debut with the even more successful The Miracle Worker (1959). The play was a huge success, starring the legendary actor Henry Fonda, as well as the soon-to-be famous Anne Bancroft. His big break came in 1958 when his play Two for the Seesaw was accepted for production on Broadway.
To support himself, he was forced to work in a psychiatric clinic, and his time at the clinic inspired his novel The Cobweb (1951). In the 1940s, Gibson wrote a handful of novels, plays, and poetry collections, without much success. Male and.William Gibson grew up in New York City and later attended City College of New York, where he was active in theater. Modeled on the English workhouse system, most almshouses tried to defray their costs by using inmates for forced labor. Institutions called "almshouses" or "asylums" sprang up in eighteenth-century America to house a wide-ranging collection of society's outcasts. Events in History at the Time the Play Takes PlaceĪlmshouses. Anne Sullivan's subsequent achievements, especially her heroic efforts to communicate with Helen Keller, served as the cornerstone of Gibson's play The Miracle Worker. Through Sullivan's letters, Gibson learned about the almshouses to which disabled children were often abandoned. Sullivan had herself been half-blind as a child and had experienced obstacles that confronted the disabled.
As an adult, he became fascinated with Anne Sullivan's famous triumph as the teacher of a deaf and blind girl named Helen Keller. William Gibson was born in the Bronx, a borough in New York City, in 1914.
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