Obscured
In the 19th century, Helen Keller was just ‘the second Laura Bridgman,’ a blind-deaf pioneer called the most famous woman alive after Queen Victoria.
Kimberly Elkins is the award-winning author of the novel What Is Visible, a New York Times Editors' Choice, now out in paperback. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review, The Village Voice, Glamour, and Best New American Voices, among others. She lives in New York City.