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Sullivan, Anne (1866–1936)| US teacher of Helen Keller. In 1887 she taught seven-year-old Helen Keller and broke through Helen's isolation by spelling out words on her hand. For the rest of her life Sullivan remained Keller's companion while establishing her own reputation as an author, lecturer, and advocate for the deaf. |
| She was born in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts; Nearly blind from a childhood fever, she was educated at the Perkins Institution in Waltham, Massachusetts. Her story was made famous by The Miracle Worker, 1957). |
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