Died : June 1, 1968 (aged 87)
Arcan Ridge Easton, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation : Author, political activist, lecturer
Education : Radcliffe College
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Helen Keller was born with the ability to see and hear. At 19 months old, she contracted an illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain", which might have been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness left her both deaf and blind. At that time, she was able to communicate somewhat with Martha Washington, the six-year-old daughter of the family cook, who understood her signs; by the age of seven, Keller had more than 60 home signs to communicate with her family.
Keller went on to become a world-famous speaker and author. She is remembered as an advocate for people with disabilities, amid numerous other causes. She was asuffragist, a pacifist, an opponent of Woodrow Wilson, aradical socialist and a birth control supporter. In 1915 she and George Kessler founded the Helen Keller International(HKI) organization. This organization is devoted to research in vision, health and nutrition. Keller met every U.S. President fromGrover Cleveland to Lyndon B. Johnson and was friends with many famous figures, including Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin and Mark Twain.
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).
Hellen Keller's Quotes
1. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart" -Helen Keller
3. "Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same" -Helen Keller
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