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Cover of Helen Keller in Love. Helen Keller in Love: A Novel is a novel by Rosie Sultan, which came out April 26 of this year.The book explores a romance between Helen Keller and her secretary Peter Fagan. Although this is a fictional piece of work, the author has researched Helen Keller's life and it has a basis in fact.I find Helen Keller an absolutely fascinating historical figure beyond what people think of as her disabilities.
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Though she could speak up about equality, the rights of others--even, occasionally, sexuality--Helen Keller was not granted the rights she sought for others. Read Post

A long while back I wrote a post about Helen Keller documenting the love story that is, oddly, still never told. Helen fell in love with a fellow named Peter Fagan - a love that she referred to throughout her life - a love which was... Read Post

I read Alice Sebold's tragic novel The Lovely Bones when it came out in 2002 and loved it; so why was I so nervous to hear that Peter Jackson was adapting the book into a movie two years ago? I didn't know how the central act - Susi... Read Post