Helen Keller

Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama in 1880. At the age of nineteen months, she contracted an illness that left her deaf and blind. With the aid of her teacher, Anne Sullivan, she became the first deafblind person to receive a B.A. degree and went on to a distinguished career as a writer and lecturer. In 1936, Keller moved to Easton, Connecticut, where she lived for the last thirty years of her life. She died there in 1968.