Anne Sullivan 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 April 14, 1866, in Feeding Hills, Agawam, Massachusetts. According to her baptismal certificate, her
Tim Sullivan (writer) Goonan's "The Bones of Time"; a review of a novel by Walter Jon Williams, "Metropolitan", which Sullivan characterized as highly readable "due largely to pungent characterization and persuasive dialogue"; and Allen Steele's novel "The Tranquillity Alternative" (1995), which he praised in the same issue of "Book World". He has used different versions of his name while publishing fiction: Timothy Robert Sullivan, Timothy R. Sullivan, and Tim Sullivan. Sullivan began his career in film in a collaboration with S. P. Somtow, entitled "The Laughing Dead" (1989); Sullivan plays a priest losing his faith, Father O'Sullivan, who becomes possessed by a Mayan