I Will Wait for You by Linda Masemore Pirrung

She also helped to start several foundations that continue to improve the lives of the deaf and blind around the world.Īs a young girl, obstinate Keller, prone to fits of violence, seethed with rage at her inability to express herself. An active and effective suffragist, pacifist, and socialist (the latter association earned her a file of Federal Bureau of Investigation), she lectured on behalf of disabled people everywhere. Nevertheless, alongside many other impressive achievements, Keller authored 13 books, wrote countless articles, and devoted her life to social reform. In this age, few women then attended college, and people often relegated the disabled to the background and spoke of the disabled only in hushed tones, when she so remarkably accomplished. Scarlet fever rendered her deaf and blind at 19 months she in several languages and as a student wrote The Story of My Life. Blind and deaf since infancy, American memoirist and lecturer Helen Adams Keller learned to read, to write, and to speak from her teacher Anne Sullivan, graduated from Radcliffe in 1904, and lectured widely on behalf of sightless people her books include Out of the Dark (1913).Ĭonditions bound not Keller.

I Will Wait for You by Linda Masemore Pirrung