Feeding Hills, Massachusetts (USA), April 14, 1866 – New York City (USA), October 20, 1936
Anne Sullivan Macy 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 partially blind and without reading or writing skills.
She received her education as a student of the Perkins School for the Blind. Soon after graduation at age 20, she became a teacher to Keller.