The 100th year anniversary Edition
Helen Keller, born in 1880, was the first deaf-blind graduate of
Radcliffe College. Later, she became a high-profile socialist, and
throughout her life she was a strong advocate for the blind and
deaf communities, visiting over thirty-five countries and
publishing fourteen books about her experiences, which have been
translated into more than fifty languages. She died in 1968.
James Berger is associate professor of English at Hofstra
University. The author of After the End- Representations of
Post-Apocalypse, Berger has been awarded a Charles Phelps Taft
Postdoctoral Fellowship by the University of Cincinnati and a
research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
He is now working on his next book, Those Who Can't Speak. He lives
in Connecticut.
“The greatest woman of our age.”
—Winston Churchill
“Helen Keller is fellow to Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, Homer,
Shakespeare, and the rest of the immortals. . . . She will be as
famous a thousand years from now as she is today.”
—Mark Twain
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