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Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy

Joseph P. Lash

Portrays the lives and relationships of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy from the 1860s and Anne Sullivan's childhood in an almshouse, through the decades of international fame, to Helen's death in 1968.

BiographyBiography · high confidenceBiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Biography -> BiographyOpen Library: Biography -> BiographyOpen Library: Keller, helen, 1880-1968 -> BiographyLiterary BiographyLiterature & WritersMemoir & Personal History

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Award for Autobiography and Biography PaperbackMajor1982FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Helen Keller90%
    • Anne Sullivan Macy85%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 68%.