William Gibson

Quick Facts

Full Name	William Gibson
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Mar 17, 1948(1948-03-17)
Age	76
Birthplace	Conway
Country	United States
Birth City	South Carolina
Horoscope	Pisces

William Gibson Biography

William Gibson is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on March 17, 1948 in Conway, South Carolina, United States. A prominent figure in the cyberpunk literary movement the most famous of his works is the novel he wrote in 1984, Neuromancer. He has been awarded each the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award.

He as well as He and Andy Duncan both won Hugo Awards. both were winners of Hugo Awards.

William Thomas Gibson (born 1959) is a historian, academic, and professor who specialises in the history of religion in Britain in the early modern period.

He initially worked as a teacher in a comprehensive school before holding posts in further education colleges in Southampton and Basingstoke. He was also an inspector in the post-compulsory sector for some years. In 1999-2000 he was Hartley Fellow at Southampton University and in 2004 was appointed Academic Director for Lifelong Learning at Westminster Institute of Education, Oxford Brookes University. In 2006 he was awarded the title Professor.

Gibson’s father was killed by eating food and choking while Gibson was a small child. His mother died at the age of late teens. He had two kids later along with his partner, Deborah Gibson.

William Gibson Net Worth

William Gibson is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, William Gibson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was born living in South Carolina and Virginia and relocated into Canada in 1968 to avoid being sent in the Vietnam War. He was a student of English literary studies in the University of British Columbia during the 1970s.

He is credited with inventing the term “cyberspace,” which first was introduced in his story Burning Chrome.

His books include, Church, State and Society, 1760-1850 (Macmillans, 1994)[2]; The Achievement of the Anglican Church, 1689-1800: The Confessional State in England in the Eighteenth Century, (Edwin Mellen Press, 1995)[3]; A Social History of the Domestic Chaplain, 1530-1840, (Leicester University Press/Cassell, 1996); Religion and Society in England and Wales, 1689-1800, (Leicester UP/Cassell, 1998); The Church of England 1688-1832: Unity and Accord, (Routledge, 2001); The Enlightenment Bishop: Benjamin Hoadly 1676-1761, (James Clarke & Co, 2004)[4]; Religion and the Enlightenment 1600-1800: Conflict and the Rise of Civic Humanism in Taunton, (Peter Lang, 2007)[5]. He is the author of numerous articles.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

William Gibson height 6 ft 6 in William weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is William Gibson Dating?

According to our records, William Gibson married to Deborah Jean Thompson (m. 1972). As of December 1, 2023, William Gibson’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

William Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. William Gibson celebrates birthday on March 17 of every year.

What is William Gibson famous for?

Also known as the Noir Prophet of the Cyberpunk subgenre, William Gibson is an American Canadian science fiction novelist. In his short story, Burning Chrome (1982), Gibson used for the first time and invented the term cyberspace and later used the concept as a base for his debut novel, Neuromancer (1984).

What did William Gibson predict?

William Gibson’s novel, Neuromancer, correctly predicted a world that was connected through a global computer network at a time when the idea of a personal computer was extremely far-fetched. In the novel, Case, a data thief, is on a mission to hack into the most powerful artificial intelligence that orbits the Earth.

What is William Gibson writing now?

The Vancouver-based Gibson has since written several bestselling books including The Peripheral, Virtual Light, Idoru and Zero History. His most recent book, Agency, is a bestseller and was on both Time’s 100 “must-read” books of 2020 list and CBC Books’s best fiction of 2020 list.

What did William Gibson coin?

Science Fiction Novelist William Gibson first coined the term “cyberspace” in his short story “Burning Chrome.” He then popularized the concept in his debut novel “Neuromancer” in 1984.

Who is the father of cyberpunk?

Share All sharing options for: Go read this New Yorker profile of William Gibson , the father of cyberpunk. Nearly four decades ago, William Gibson published a short story called Burning Chrome in Omni magazine, and with it, he birthed cyberpunk. (It also coined the term “cyberspace” in its third sentence.)