Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968) was born in Tuscumbia,
Alabama in 1880. As a result of an illness, she became deaf and
blind at the age of nineteen months. In 1887, her learning began
with her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, and at the age of
nineteen, she entered Radcliffe College, from which she graduated
in 1904. A well-known lecturer and writer, she published her
autobiography, The Story of My Life, in 1902. Her other works
include Optimism (1903), The World I Live In (1908), and The Song
of the Stone Wall (1910).
Marlee Matlin received worldwide critical acclaim for her
film "Children of a Lesser God," for which she received the Academy
Award for Best Actress, becoming the youngest recipient of the Best
Actress Oscar and only one of four actresses to receive the honor
for her film debut. Since then she has gone on to star in
numerous film and television roles. In 1994, she was appointed by
President Clinton to the Corporation for National Service and she
currently serves as spokesperson for The American Red Cross as well
as on the boards of a number of charitable organizations,
continuing to advocate on behalf of children and people with
disabilities. She has authored three novels for children, Deaf
Child Crossing, Nobody’s Perfect and Leading Ladies and in 2009,
published her New York Times bestselling autobiography I’ll Scream
Later.
Jim Knipfel is a staff writer at New York Press, as well as
the author of Slackjaw and Quitting the Nairobi Trio.
“The greatest woman of our age.”
—Winston Churchill
“Helen Keller is fellow to Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, Homer,
Shakespeare, and the rest of the immortals. . . . She will be as
famous a thousand years from now as she is today.”
—Mark Twain
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