The Story of My Life

Keller’s moving and courageous memoir of her early years was published in 1902 in a series for The Ladies’ Home Journal while she was still a student at Radcliffe (among many pioneering accomplishments, Keller was the first deaf and blind person to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts). In 1903, it was published as a book. The Story of My Life chronicles Keller’s emergence from the isolation of her blindness and deafness through her work with her teacher Anne Sullivan. It was adapted to stage and film as The Miracle Worker, originally by William Gibson. This volume includes Keller’s early letters, and an account by John Albert Macy, Sullivan’s husband, of Keller’s early education, as well as many letters Sullivan wrote during that period.

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