Helen Keller Helen Adams Keller is an American writer, political activist and lecturer. She became the winner of the Honorary University Degrees Women's Hall of Fame, The Presidential Medal of Freedom, The Lions Humanitarian Award, and even her life story won 2 Oscars. He wrote articles and famous books, including The World I Live In and The Story of My Life (typed in ordinary letters and Braille), which became classic literature in America and translated into 50 languages. He traveled to 39 countries to talk with presidents, raising funds for blind and deaf people. He founded the American Foundation for the Blind and the American Foundation for the Overseas Blind. She was born normally in Tuscumbia, Alabama in 1880. At the age of 19 months, he was attacked by a disease that caused him to be blind and deaf. He becomes frustrated because of difficulty in communicating, often angry, and difficult to teach. At the age of 7, his parents trusted Anne Sullivan to b