Helen keller teacher biography in third

Few of us leave instructions for our future biographers. Anne Sullivan Macy did so. The woman best known as the teacher of Helen Keller wanted to be remembered as a skilled and innovative educator—but without the idolization that came along with working miracles.

Helen keller teacher biography in third person

In “Foolish Remarks of a Foolish Woman,” a self-compiled collection of short reflections, she directed future biographers to avoid such veneration. “I have met a number of famous men uneventfully,” she wrote, “but I have learned something about them.

They are Human like the rest of us, they are not gods or even sacred cows as their biographers would have us believe.”

Few of us, however, get to successfully dictate how we will be remembered---and historians, of course, rightly and stubbornly resist letting their subjects define themselves.

As I have reconsidered Macy in my new biography, Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Re