Helen Keller wrote her autobiography at age 22 while attending Radcliffe College. She was born in 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama to Captain Arthur H. Keller and Kate Adams Keller. Her family had deep roots in the American South and Switzerland. Keller's autobiography provided a unique perspective as a narrative written by someone who was both deaf and blind.

4. Introduction
An autobiography is the life story
of a person written by himself or
herself.
Helen keller wrote her
autobiography when she was 22, as
a third-year student at the Radcliffe
college. It was published in 1903
and instantly became popular
because it was in which a blind and
deaf person telling her story
Interestingly.

7. It is with a kind of fear that she begin to write
the history of her life. A few impressions stand
out strongly from the first years of her life, but
the shadows of the prison-house are on the
rest….

8. She was born on June 27, 1880, in
Tuscumbia, a little town of northern
Alabama
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10. Grate grand
father
He was the person from
whom her father’s family
was descended .
Name : Caspar Keller
Native : Switzerland
Settled
place : Maryland

11. Grandfather
He captured large
area of land in
Alabama and finally
settled there. Once a
year he went to
Philadelphia on
horseback to purchase
supplies for the
plantation..

12. Father
His mother was granddaughter of Alexander
Spotwood, an early Colonial Governor of Virginia.
• Name : Arthur H.Keller
• Job : Captain of
confederate army
• Passion : Hunting

13. Mother
•Name : Kate Adams
•Grand
father: Benjamin Adams
• Grand
mother : Susanna E.
Goodhue.
•Father :Charles Adams
• Mother :Lucy Helen
Everett.

14. Her house and situation
She lived, up to the time of illness that
deprived her of her sight and hearing, in a tiny
house consisting of a large square room and a
small one, in which the servant slept. There is
a custom in the south to build a small house
near a homestead .

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