William Gibson (playwright)
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William Gibson was an American playwright and novelist. He won the Tony Award for Best Play for The Miracle Worker in 1959, which he later adapted for a film version in 1962.
Gibson in 1964
Helen Keller
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Helen Adams Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when
William Gibson (playwright)
…of rewriting for the sake of this production with The Seesaw Log, a nonfiction book. His 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 after he adapted it from his original 1957 telefilm script. He adapted the work again…
Keller c. 1904
Keller's birthplace in Tuscumbia, Alabama
Keller (left) with Anne Sullivan vacationing on Cape Cod in July 1888
Keller in the Radcliffe College yearbook, 1904