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Helen Keller


Born
in Tuscumbia, Alabama, The United States
June 27, 1880

Died
June 01, 1968

Genre


Blind and deaf since infancy, American memoirist and lecturer Helen Adams Keller learned to read, to write, and to speak from her teacher Anne Sullivan, graduated from Radcliffe in 1904, and lectured widely on behalf of sightless people; her books include Out of the Dark (1913).

Conditions bound not Keller. Scarlet fever rendered her deaf and blind at 19 months; she in several languages and as a student wrote The Story of My Life . In this age, few women then attended college, and people often relegated the disabled to the background and spoke of the disabled only in hushed tones, when she so remarkably accomplished. Nevertheless, alongside many other impressive achievements, Keller authored 13 books, wrote countless articles, and de
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Average rating: 4.07 · 155,450 ratings · 4,586 reviews · 219 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Story of My Life

4.08 avg rating — 147,284 ratings — published 1902
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3.80 avg rating — 3,968 ratings — published 1933 — 44 editions
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The World I Live In

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The Story of my life; with ...

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3.97 avg rating — 507 ratings — published 1902 — 52 editions
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Optimism

3.95 avg rating — 375 ratings — published 1903 — 17 editions
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The Story of my Life (Term ...

3.63 avg rating — 329 ratings
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Light in my Darkness

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4.12 avg rating — 282 ratings — published 1994 — 14 editions
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Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy

4.17 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 1954 — 2 editions
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The World I Live In and Opt...

4.18 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions
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To Love This Life: Quotatio...

4.22 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions
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Quotes by Helen Keller  (?)
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“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
Helen Keller

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
Helen Keller

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
Helen Keller

Polls

June 2019 New School Poll

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, 171 pages, 1966
 
  89 votes, 31.9%

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, 240 pages, 1902
 
  66 votes, 23.7%

On the Beach by Nevil Shute, 296 pages, 1957
 
  43 votes, 15.4%

Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart, 342 pages, 1958
 
  33 votes, 11.8%

Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, 236 pages, 1922
 
  33 votes, 11.8%

Omensetter's Luck by William H. Gass, 315 pages, 1966
 
  15 votes, 5.4%

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