Volume 51, Number 3 · February 26, 2004
A World of Words
By Roger Shattuck
'That [Helen Keller] has told her story, and told it so well, is half the story itself.'[1]
—John Macy, 1902
At age twenty-three, still a sophomore at Radcliffe College, collaborating with her teacher, Anne Sullivan, and with her young editorial assistant, John Macy, Helen Keller published The Story of My Life. That indispensable book has sold millions of copies worldwide and inspired the statement quoted above. The four hundred pages of The Story of My Life virtually embody Helen's battle to survive as a fully human hybrid of freak and angel.[2]
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