“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved.”
— Helen Keller
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Helen Adams Keller was an American author, lecturer, disability rights advocate and political activist. She was born on June 27, 1880 in West Tuscumbia, Alabama. She lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was only 19 months old. She then communicated primarily using home signs until the age of seven, when she met her first teacher and life-long companion Anne Sullivan. Anne taught her language, including reading and writing. After an education at both specialist and mainstream schools, she attended Radcliffe College of Harvard University and became the first deafblind person in the United States to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. She died on the first day of June 1968.
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