William Gibson is a speculative fiction writer who is often referred to as the "noir prophet" of the cyberpunk subgenre. In his short story "Burning Chrome" he introduced the word ‘Cyber-punk’ which was later popularized as a concept in his first novel, ‘Neuromancer’. With a wandering childhood and the loss of his parents at an early age, Gibson went through a period of seclusion where he became influenced by the writers of the Beat Generation. After travelling all over the United States and Europe, he immigrated to Canada and immersed himself in the counterculture. He eventually settled in Vancouver and became a full-time writer. After writing many bleak, noir near-future stories, he finally wrote his first novel, ‘Neuromancer’, which garnered critical and commercial success. This novel was a beginning to the cyberpunk literary genre. His visualization of the cyberspace created a depiction of the information age even before the internet conquered the world. He wrote several famous novels in this genre and also contributed to film and television. Today, he is regarded as the most important North American science fiction writer who has contributed to the craft extensively in the past two decades. This influential author’s work has impacted not just other science fiction writers, but also musicians, academicians and technologists.