Tony Award-winning playwright and novelist William Gibson, whose best known work, “The Miracle Worker,” won critical acclaim and widespread popularity among audiences, has died at the age of 94.

William Gibson died on Tuesday in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, according to a representative of the Finnerty & Stevens Funeral Home in Great Barrington. The cause of death was not revealed.

Initially written for television and run in 1957, “The Miracle Worker” was adopted for Broadway a couple of years later by William Gibson and Anne Bancroft was cast in the role of Annie Sullivan, a governess and teacher who managed to teach Helen Keller, a blind and deaf young girl, discipline and language. Hellen Keller was impersonated by Patty Duke.

The show received three Tony awards, including Broadway’s top prize, for best play. Anne Bancroft was awarded with the honor for best actress and Arthur Penn won the best director prize.

A 1962 movie adaptation, helmed by Arthur Penn as well, was granted Academy Awards for Anne Bancroft as best actress and Petty Duke as best supporting actress, while the director of the production and William Gibson received Oscar nominations.

William Gibson’s other works include “Dinny and the Witches,” in which a musician brings upon himself the anger of three Shakesperian witches, “Two for the Seesaw,” which received a Tony nomination, “A Mass for the Dead,” “A Cry of Players,” as well as “Golda,” a play about the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.

William Gibson wed Margaret Brenman-Gibson, a psychotherapist and biographer, in 1940. She died approximately four years ago.