Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Brooks, Van Wycks

Helen Keller: Sketch for a Portrait Van Wyck Brooks - New York E. P. Dutton & Company 1956 - 166 p.




A child in Alabama --
The prodigy --
Wrentham --
Out of the dark --
The open road --
For the blind --
"My religion" --
Interlude : England and Japan --
At Westport : Jo Davidson --
From a notebook --
Around the world --
A later miscellany.

As an infant Helen Keller was a "living nullity," deaf, blind, unable to speak. - Here is her story, the story of a walking shadow who learned French, German, Latin, Greek - and another language, a foreign tongue in exactly the same degree, English. At 16 she was ready for Radcliffe College.


Keller, Helen 1880-1968


Helen Keller

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