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| Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan |
Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Helen Keller was not born blind and deaf; she suffered an illness described as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain" when she was 19 months old. The illness did not last long however it left her deaf and blind. Her teacher Anne helped her break through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become known worldwide through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker.
Keller wrote a total of 12 published books and several articles.
One of her earliest pieces of writing, at age 11, was The Frost King (1891). which was later classified a plagerism.
Her spritual autobiography, "My Religion", was published in 1927 and reissued as "Light in my darkness". It advocated the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg, a controversial mystic who gave out the interpretion of the second coming of jesus and the judgement.
Keller suffered a series of strokes in 1961 and spent the last years of her life in bed. She died in her sleep on June 1, 1968 at her home, Arcan Ridge, located in Easton, Connecticut
A service was held in her honor at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. and her ashes were placed there next to her constant companions, Anne Sullivan and Polly Thompson.
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