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Helen Keller
The deaf and blind American writer who became famous around the world
Helen Keller was born in Alabama in the USA in 1880. A childhood illness left her deaf and blind, but she still learned to speak and read and write. She wrote several books, graduated from college, and met 12 US presidents. By the end of her life she was famous around the world. Lucy Burns spoke to her great-niece, Adair Faust for Witness History.
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(Photo: Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968). Credit: Hulton Archive)
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