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Witness History: Helen Keller

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Helen Keller

23/11/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, 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.

This programme is a rebroadcast.

(Photo: Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968). Credit: Hulton Archive)

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