Keller was friends with Mark Twain

When Keller was 14 years old and enrolled at Cambridge School for Young Ladies, she had the chance to dine with Mark Twain. A close bond that began after this encounter and lasted till Twain's death in 1910 for almost 16 years was born. They shared many interests and political opinions in addition to a passion for traveling and animals. An essential Helen Keller fact is that it was Twain who requested that Henry H. Rogers pay for Keller's education. Along with Charlie Chaplin and Alexander Graham Bell, Keller has a long list of notable friends.

The famed author and comic Mark Twain and the activist and writer Helen Keller, who was deaf and blind, created a mutually supportive society that neither distance nor handicap could stifle. Keller was considered by Mark Twain to be "the eighth wonder of the world" and a "fellow to Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, Homer, Shakespeare, and the rest of the immortals." The founder of American literature served as Keller's friend and mentor. She claimed that Mark Twain "has his own style of thinking, saying, and doing everything." "I can sense the glint in his eye as we shake hands. He conveys that his heart is a soft Iliad of human emotion even as he speaks his cynical wisdom in an unbearably droll voice.