The Miracle Worker: Mcdougal Littell Literature Connections

by William Gibson

The miracle worker / William Gibson -- from Three days to see / Helen Keller -- Darkness at noon / Harold Krents -- And Sarah laughed / Joanne Greenberg -- The game / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Miss Awful / Arthur Cavanaugh -- A man / Nina Cassian -- from Seeing / Annie Dillard.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published October 29, 1997

About the author

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William Gibson was a Tony Award-winning American playwright and novelist. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1938.

Gibson's 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 for the 1962 film version, receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay; the same actresses who previously had won Tony Awards for their performances in the stage version, Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, received Academy Awards for the film version as well.