Helen Keller

✶June 27, 1880

†June 1, 1968

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Helen Adams Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old. She then communicated primarily using home signs until the age of seven, when she met her first teacher and life-long companion Anne Sullivan. Sullivan taught Keller language, including reading and writing. After an education at both specialist and mainstream schools, Keller attended Radcliffe College of Harvard University and became the first deafblind person in the United States to earn a college diploma.

American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)

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Biography from the article Helen Keller on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.