Although most people know Helen Keller for her childhood achievements, few people know of Keller’s later life and her many accomplishments. Keller never let her deafness and blindness impede her ambitions, and after graduating from Radcliffe (in an age when few women attended college at all), she established herself internationally as an effective human and civil rights leader. Keller considered this some of her most important work, and she traveled extensively on behalf of the American Foundation for the Blind, visiting such countries as Egypt and Japan and enjoying audiences with many U.S. Presidents. Much more than an afterthought, Keller’s adult advocacy forms a substantial and influential aspect of her life as a person engaged in the world beyond her. About the Author: Historian Kim E. Nielsen is an award-winning educator and the author of many books, including "Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller."
