# Helen Keller

> She couldn't see or hear from nineteen months old, yet became the first deafblind person in the United States to earn a college degree - then spent six decades writing, lecturing, and organizing for labor rights, suffrage, and socialism.

*American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/helen-keller

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1880-06-27
- **Died:** 1968-06-01
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880, Helen Adams Keller lost both sight and hearing after an illness before she turned two. She communicated through home signs until age seven, when Anne Sullivan arrived as her teacher and lifelong companion, unlocking language through touch. Keller studied at specialist and mainstream schools, then entered Radcliffe College and graduated in 1903 - the first deafblind American to hold a college diploma. That same year she published The Story of My Life, the autobiography that made her education famous. She went on to write fourteen books and hundreds of speeches on subjects from animals to Gandhi, joined the Socialist Party in 1909, helped found the ACLU, and campaigned for disability rights, women's suffrage, labor reform, and world peace. She died June 1, 1968; her Alabama birthplace is now a National Historic Landmark and museum.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 83.6 / 100
- **Momentum:** 9.9 / 100  (trend: RISING)
- **Historical depth:** 34.7 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 31.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0445656/ (@nm0445656)

## Topics
#Activists, #Writer / Author, #Literature, #Stand Up, #Activism, #United States, #Americas, #20th Century

## Timeline
- **2010** - Labor Hall of Honor
- **2006** - Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame
- **1973** - National Women's Hall of Fame
- **1971** - Alabama Women's Hall of Fame
- **1968** - Died
- **1965** - Golden Plate Award
- **1964** - Presidential Medal of Freedom
- **1880** - Born

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