Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf blind person to graduate from collegeHelen Keller was born at an estate called Ivy Green in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880, to Captain Arthur H. Keller, a former officer of the Confederate Army, and Kate Adams Keller, Keller had a particular form of the disease that brought blindness and retardation. The illness did not last for a particularly long time, but it left her deaf and blind. Later Keller learned Braille and used it to read not only English but also French, German, Greek, and Latin. Keller went on to become a world-famous speaker and authorOne of Keller's earliest pieces of writing, at the age of eleven, was The Frost King (1891). Keller wrote The World I Live In in 1908 giving readers an insight into how she felt about the world. Out of the Dark, a series of essays on Socialism, was published in 1913. In total Keller wrote 12 books and numerous articles. Keller suffered a series of strokes in 1961 and spent the last years of her life at her home.
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