The name Helen Keller conjures up, for many people, a deaf-blind-mute girl learning to communicate via sign language. It is a scene straight out of “The Miracle Worker,” the biographical play ...

joined the family, to manage the household and the business affairs. Although her present life seems almost like retirement after the blaze of notoriety of a quarter-century ago, Helen Keller is ...

Helen Keller had been both blind and deaf since childhood, but that didn't stop her from becoming an author and activist later in life. It also didn't stop her from flying a plane. In 1946 ...

When Helen was 6 years old, her mother Kate read an excerpt of Charles Dickens’ American Notes about a deaf and blind woman who was successfully educated. The Keller Family, whose members were ...

Helen Keller was a deafblind author and activist best known for her 1902 autobiography, The Story of My Life. She was involved with the suffrage and labor-rights movements and an advocate for ...

Helen Keller was a famous lecturer ... Graham recommended that the Keller family visit the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston, Massachusetts. It was at Perkins where Keller met Anne ...

SANJEEV BHASKAR: In the early part of the 20th century, Helen Keller was one of the most famous women in the world. She was an author, she was an Oscar winner, and she had the ear of presidents ...

The play centers on the pivotal portion of Keller's childhood whenSullivan enters her life. As Sullivan struggles to reach Helen, she must also contend with the obstacles in her student's family ...