William Gibson (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
William Ford Gibson was born on March 17, 1948, in Conway, South Carolina. His father was in construction and helped build the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, facilities where the first atomic bomb was built. In 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, Gibson fled to Canada to avoid the draft. He attended the University of British Columbia, earning a bachelor's degree in English. Settling in Vancouver, Gibson began publishing science-fiction stories with “Fragments of a Hologram Rose” in 1977.
In 1984 Gibson's first novel, Neuromancer, a noir thriller about...
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