My Story

Helen Keller's well-known autobiography, "The Story of My Life," was written while she was in college and published in 1903. Much less known is her shorter autobiography, "My Story," which she wrote at age 12 especially for a magazine called "Youth's Companion." As Helen Keller explained in her 1903 autobiography: "[Miss Sullivan] persuaded me to write for the 'Youth's Companion' a brief account of my life. I was then twelve years old. As I look back on my struggle to write that little stor...