My Story

My Story

Helen Kellerâ€™s well-known autobiography, â€œThe Story of My Life,â€ was written while she was in college and published in 1903. Much less known is her shorter autobiography, â€œMy Story,â€ which she wrote at age 12 especially for a magazine called â€œYouthâ€™s Companion.â€ As Helen Keller explained in her 1903 autobiography: â€œ[Miss Sullivan] persuaded me to write for the â€˜Youthâ€™s Companionâ€™ a brief account of my life. I was then twelve years old. As I look back on my struggle to write that little story, it seems to me that I must have had a prophetic vision of the good that would come of the undertaking, or I should surely have failed. I wrote timidly, fearfully, but resolutely, urged on by my teacher.â€ When â€œYouthâ€™s Companionâ€ published the four-part account, Helen Keller was not yet well known, and her story was prefaced by the explanatory remark: â€œWritten wholly without help of any sort by Helen Keller, a deaf and blind girl, twelve years old, and printed without change.â€

This Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 16 pages, includes the complete text of the very rare autobiography of 12-year-old Helen Keller, â€œMy Story.â€

Sample passage:
I was born twelve years ago, one bright June morning, in Tuscumbia, a pleasant little town in the northern part of Alabama. The beginning of my life was very simple, and very much like the beginning of every other little life; for I could see and hear when I first came to live in this beautiful world. But I did not notice anything in my new home for several days. Content in my motherâ€™s tender arms I lay, and smiled as if my little heart were filled with sweetest memories of the world I just had left.

I like to think I lived with God in the beautiful Somewhere before I came here, and that is why I always knew God loved me, even when I had forgotten his name.

But when I did begin to notice things, my blue eyes were filled with wondering joy. I gazed long at the lovely, deep-blue sky, and stretched out my tiny hands for the golden sunbeams that came to play hide-and-seek with me. So my happy baby hours went. I grew and cried and laughed, as all infants do.
Country USA
Manufacturer A. J. Cornell Publications
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2011-09-30
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	A. J. Cornell Publications
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2011-09-30
Format	Kindle eBook

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