Helen Keller In Love

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Eddie Ytuarte will talk to Rosie Sultan about her recently released book, Helen Keller in Love.  

 

 

 

 

This relationship has been written about in biographies and in Keller’s autobiography, but the novel delves more deeply into the short affair. 

Smithdas and Dowdy signing in unison through the Tadoma method. from http://theinterpretersfriend.org

 

 

The relationship between Helen Keller and Peter Fagan bloomed as the U.S. was ready to enter World War One. 

 

 

Rosie Sultan will be our guest.

 

 

The real-life affair was short and deep; it impacted Keller for the rest of her life.

 

Read more about the book in this review from the Washington Post.

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