Helen Adams Keller Helen Adams Keller was a remarkable American writer, activist and educator who overcame the challenges of being blind and deaf. She was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, and became ill when she was 19 months old. The illness left her unable to see or hear anything. She lived in a world of silence and darkness until she met her teacher Anne Sullivan at the age of seven. Sullivan taught Keller how to communicate using finger spelling, Braille, lip reading and speech. Keller learned to read, write and speak several languages. She also attended school and college, becoming the first deafblind person in the United States to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree f...
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