Helen Adams Keller

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DOB: June 27, 1880-June 1, 1968

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DOB: June 27, 1880-June 1, 1968

Birthplace: America 🇺🇸

About Helen: Famous American woman who, though deaf and blind, became a women's suffragist and leftist political activist. She published twelve books and a number of articles over the course of her life

Before Fame: She contracted a disease when she was nineteen months old (likely scarlet fever or meningitis) that her left her blind and deaf. As a young child, she developed a repertoire of physical signs which she used to communicate with her parents and with the young daughter of the Keller family's cook

Trivia: Her life and her childhood education with radical teacher, Anne Sullivan, were immortalized in The Miracle Worker, a Broadway play (and later, Oscar winning film) based on Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life. Sullivan taught her sign language through the use of a water pump

Family Life: She was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama to Kate Adams and newspaper editor and Confederate Army Captain, Arthur H. Keller. Helen Keller's parternal grandmother was the second cousin of Confederate general Robert E. Lee

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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