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Keller (HELEN ADAMS an American writer)

HELEN ADAMS, an American writer and lecturer; born in 1880 in Tuscumbia, Ala. She was deaf, in Tuscumbia, Ala. dumb and blind from her infancy. No serious attempt was made to educate her until she was eight years of age. Her training was then undertaken by Miss Anne M. Sullivan, who devoted many years to developing the power to read and to speak. Her success was remarkable.

After a course of instruction at the Horace Mann School in New York, she was able to speak intelligently. She to speak intelligently. entered Radcliffe College in 1900 and graduated in 1904. She became widely known as a lecturer and writer, both on her own experiences and on social subjects. Her writings include "Optimism" (1903); "The World I Live In" (1908); "Out of the Dark" (1913). She also wrote an autobiography entitled "Story of my Life."