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Author: Dorothy Herrmann
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1999-12-15
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780226327631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDraws on the archives of Helen Keller's estate and the unpublished memoirs of Keller's teacher, Annie Sullivan, to trace Keller's transformation from a furious girl to a world-renowned figure.
Author: Kim E. Nielsen
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0814758134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite her disabilities, Helen Keller worked tirelessly for human rights and other political issues.
Author: Gare Thompson
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2003-08-25
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 0448431440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt age two, Helen Keller became deaf and blind. She lived in a world of silence and darkness and she spent the rest of her life struggling to break through it. But with the help of teacher Annie Sullivan, Helen learned to read, write, and do many amazing things. This inspiring illustrated biography is perfect for young middle-grade readers. Black-and-white line drawings throughout, sidebars on related topics such as Louis Braille, a timeline, and a bibliography enhance readers' understanding of the subject.
Author: Helen Keller
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2005-06
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0814758290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere is Helen Keller's endlessly fascinating life in all its variety: from intimate personal correspondence to radical political essays, from autobiography to speeches advocating the rights of disabled people.
Author: Rosie Sultan
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-04-26
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1101580615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA captivating novel that explores the little-known romance of a beloved American icon Helen Keller has long been a towering figure in the pantheon of world heroines. Yet the enduring portrait of her in the popular imagination is The Miracle Worker, which ends when Helen is seven years old. Rosie Sultan’s debut novel imagines a part of Keller’s life she rarely spoke of or wrote about: the man she once loved. When Helen is in her thirties and Annie Sullivan is diagnosed with tuberculosis, a young man steps in as a private secretary. Peter Fagan opens a new world to Helen, and their sensual interactions—signing and lip-reading with hands and fingers—quickly set in motion a liberating, passionate, and clandestine affair. It’s not long before Helen’s secret is discovered and met with stern disapproval from her family and Annie. As pressure mounts, the lovers plot to elope, and Helen is caught between the expectations of the people who love her and her most intimate desires. Richly textured and deeply sympathetic, Sultan’s highly inventive telling of a story Keller herself would not tell is both a captivating romance and a rare glimpse into the mind and heart of an inspirational figure.
Author: Helen Keller
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 234
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elisabeth Sheffield
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2014-09-30
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 1573661813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe newest novel by Elisabeth Sheffield, the award-winning author of Gone and Fort Da What does it mean to really live? Or not? Set in eastern, upstate New York, Helen Keller Really Lived features a fortyish former barfly and grifter who must make a living in the wake of her wealthy husband’s death, and who finds work in a clinic helping women seeking reproductive assistance. The other main character is the grifter’s dead ex-husband, a Ukrainian hooker-to-healer success story, who prior to his demise was a gynecologist and after, an amateur folklorist, or ghostlorist, who collected and provided scholarly commentary on the stories of his fellow “revenants.” Their intertwined stories explore the mistakes, miscarriages, inadequacies, and defeats that may have led to their divorce, including his failure (according to her) to “fully live.” As it investigates the theme of what it means to “really live” or not, Elisabeth Sheffield’s brilliant new novel is also an exploration of virtual reality in the sense of the experience provided by literature. It is a novel awash in a multitude of voices, from the obscenity-laced, Nabokovian soliloquys of the dead Ukrainian doctor, to the trade-school / midcentury-romance-novel-constrained style of his dead mother-in-law.
Author: Elizabeth MacLeod
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
Published: 2007-08
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1554530008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA brief biography highlights some of the struggles and accomplishments in the life of Helen Keller.
Author: Meredith Eliassen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2021-09-09
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1440874646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides new and exciting interpretations of Helen Keller's unparalleled life as "the most famous American woman in the world" during her time, celebrating the 141st anniversary of her birth. Helen Keller: A Life in American History explores Keller's life, career as a lobbyist, and experiences as a deaf-blind woman within the context of her relationship with teacher-guardian-promoter Anne Sullivan Macy and overarching social history. The book tells the dual story of a pair struggling with respective disabilities and financial hardship and the oppressive societal expectations set for women during Keller's lifetime. This narrative is perhaps the most comprehensive study of Helen Keller's role in the development of support services specifically related to the deaf-blind, as delineated as different from the blind. Readers will learn about Keller's challenges and choices as well as how her public image often eclipsed her personal desires to live independently. Keller's deaf-blindness and hard-earned but limited speech did not define her as a human being as she explored the world of ideas and wove those ideas into her writing, lobbying for funds for the American Federation for the Blind and working with disabled activists and supporters to bring about practical help during times of tremendous societal change.
Author: Kathi Wolfe
Publisher: Brickhouse Books, Incorporated
Published: 2019-09
Total Pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9781938144646
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Kathi Wolfe's poetry navigates loss after loss, complex joy after complex joy, and comes out rinsed clean, with language as sharp as a new blade.'' (Rose Solari) ''Humor is a rare quality anywhere but even more so in poetry. In this case, Kathi Wolfe's Love & Kumquats has not only wit but also compassionate honesty in spades. We meet not only a very uppity blind girl who has quite a way with the ladies, but also Helen Keller herself who is recast in wholly different ways than The Miracle Worker would have you believe. Then Wolfe's father suddenly reappears after four decades of being dead, and even God scores a horoscope poem!'' (Raymond Luczak) AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY: Kathi Wolfe is a writer and poet. Her chapbook The Green Light was published by Finishing Line Press in 2013. Wolfe was a finalist in the 2007 Pudding House Publications Chapbook competition. Her chapbook Helen Takes the Stage: The Helen Keller Poems was published by Pudding House in 2008. She is a contributor to Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability, an American Library Association Notable Book for 2011 and a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Poetry Anthology-Fall 2011. Wolfe's poetry has appeared in Gargoyle, Beltway Poetry Quarterly and other publications. She has appeared on the radio show ''The Poet and the Poem, '' received a Puffin Foundation grant, and been awarded poetry residencies by Vermont Studio Center. In 2008, Wolfe was a Lambda Literary Foundation Fellow and a winner of that year's (Washington DC Transit Authority/Arlington County, VA) Moving Words Poetry Competition. She is a regular contributor to the LGBT newspaper The Washington Blade and a Senior Writer/Columnist with the arts magazine Scene4. AUTHOR HOME: Falls Church, Virginia
