Keller’s story, via her autobiography “The Story of My Life,” has been adapted in numerous stage productions (most famously William Gibson’s “The Miracle Worker” in 1959) and films, including Disney’s 2000 TV movie “The Miracle Worker,” starring Hallie Kate Eisenberg, who is not deaf, and “The Miracle Worker” (1962), which starred another non-deaf actor, Patty Duke, as Keller. When Sullivan is courted by the young and brilliant publisher, John Macy, tensions escalate between the two women that threaten the bonds of their friendship. Set during the early 1900s, the story follows Keller’s tumultuous time at Radcliffe College at Harvard University when her rapidly expanding worldview and sexual awakening brings her into direct conflict with the conservative Sullivan.
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