About Hellen Keller
[Wikidata] American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)... | [Wikipedia] Helen Adams Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old. She then communicated primarily using home signs until the age of seven, whe