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　　After many years, historian and Helen Keller expert Kim

Nielsen realized that she, along with other historians and

biographers, had failed Anne Sullivan Macy. While Macy is

remembered primarily as Helen Keller's teacher and mythologized as

a straightforward educational superhero, the real story of this

brilliant, complex, and misunderstood woman, who described herself

as a "badly constructed human being," has never been completely

told.

Beyond the Miracle Worker, the first biography of Macy in nearly

fifty years, complicates the typical Helen-Annie "feel good"

narrative in surprising ways. By telling the life from Macy's

perspective-not Keller's-the biography is the first to put Macy

squarely at the center of the story. It presents a new and

fascinating tale about a wounded but determined woman and her quest

for a successful, meaningful life.

Born in 1866 to poverty-stricken Irish immigrants, the parentless

and deserted Macy suffered part of her childhood in the

Massachusetts State Almshouse at Tewksbury. Seeking escape, in love

with literature, and profoundly stubborn, she successfully fought

to gain an education at the Perkins School for the Blind.

As an adult, Macy taught Keller, helping the girl realize her

immense potential, and Macy's intimate friendship with Keller

remained powerful throughout their lives. Yet as Macy floundered

with her own blindness, ill health, and depression, as well as a

tumultuous and triangulated marriage, she came to lean on her

former student, emotionally, physically, and economically.

Based on privately held primary source material, including

materials at both the American Foundation for the Blind and the

Perkins School for the Blind, Beyond the Miracle Worker is

revelatory and absorbing, unraveling one of the best known-and

least understood-friendships of the twentieth century.

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　　Kim E. Nielsen is an award-winning

educator, the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities

We the People stipend, a Fulbright lecturer, the author of many

journal articles, and frequent public speaker. Her books

include Helen Keller: Selected

Writings (2005), The Radical Lives of Helen

Keller(2004) and Un-American Womanhood: Antiradicalism,

Antifeminism and the First Red Scare (2001). She also

served as an advisory editor to the forthcomingEncyclopedia of

American Disability History (2009). She lives in Green

Bay, Wisconsin where she is Professor of History & Women's

Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

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After many years, historian and Helen Keller expert Kim Nielsen realized that she, along with other historians and biographers, had failed Anne Sullivan Macy. While Macy is remembered primarily as Helen Keller's teacher and mythologized as a straightforward educational superhero, the real story of this brilliant, complex, and misunderstood woman, who described herself as a "badly constructed human being," has never been completely told.

Beyond the Miracle Worker, the first biography of Macy in nearly fifty years, complicates the typical Helen-Annie "feel good" narrative in surprising ways. By telling the life from Macy's perspective-not Keller's-the biography is the first to put Macy squarely at the center of the story. It presents a new and fascinating tale about a wounded but determined woman and her quest for a successful, meaningful life.

Born in 1866 to poverty-stricken Irish immigrants, the parentless and deserted Macy suffered part of her childhood in the Massachusetts State Almshouse at Tewksbury. Seeking escape, in love with literature, and profoundly stubborn, she successfully fought to gain an education at the Perkins School for the Blind.

As an adult, Macy taught Keller, helping the girl realize her immense potential, and Macy's intimate friendship with Keller remained powerful throughout their lives. Yet as Macy floundered with her own blindness, ill health, and depression, as well as a tumultuous and triangulated marriage, she came to lean on her former student, emotionally, physically, and economically.

Based on privately held primary source material, including materials at both the American Foundation for the Blind and the Perkins School for the Blind, Beyond the Miracle Worker is revelatory and absorbing, unraveling one of the best known-and least understood-friendships of the twentieth century.