Anne Sullivan their roles as Sullivan and Keller in the 1962 film version "The Miracle Worker". Anne Sullivan Johanna Mansfield Sullivan Macy (April 14, 1866 – October 20, 1936), better known as Anne Sullivan, was an American teacher, best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller. At the age of five, Sullivan contracted trachoma, an eye disease, which left her blind and without reading or writing skills. She received her education as a student of the Perkins School for the Blind where upon graduation she became a teacher to Keller when she was 20. Sullivan was born on
Anne S. K. Brown the Company of Military Historians in 1949. She was one of the few women military historians. She also wrote many books and articles. In 1962, she was given an L.H.D degree from Brown University. In 1965 she lectured on military history at the University of California. In 1930, she met and married John Nicholas Brown II, a Brown family heir who eventually became Assistant Secretary of the Navy (AIR) from 1946 to 1949. Together, Anne and John had three children: Anne Brown died at her home "Harbour Court" in Newport, RI, on November 21, 1985. Anne S. K. Brown Anne