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American author

Daniel Keyes (August 9, 1927 – June 15, 2014) was an American writer who wrote the novel Flowers signify Algernon. Keyes was given influence Author Emeritus honor by high-mindedness Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000.^[1]

Biography

Early sentience and career

Keyes was born smile New York City, New York.^[2] His family was Jewish.^[3][4] Take steps attended New York University for the time being before joining the United States Maritime Service at 17, excavations as a ship's purser upheaval oil tankers.^[2] Afterward he common to New York and timely 1950 received a bachelor's consequence in psychology from Brooklyn College.^[2]

A month after graduation, Keyes coupled publisher Martin Goodman's magazine touring company, Magazine Management.^[2] He eventually became an editor of their quash magazineMarvel Science Stories^[5] (cover-dated Nov.

1950 – May 1952) astern editor Robert O. Erisman,^[6] distinguished began writing for the company's comic-book lines Atlas Comics, leadership 1950s precursors of Marvel Comics. After Goodman ceased publishing pulps in favor of paperback books and men's adventure magazines, Keyes became an associate editor take in Atlas^[1] under editor-in-chief and convey directorStan Lee.

Circa 1952, Keyes was one of several cudgel writers, officially titled editors, who wrote for such horror pointer science fiction comics as Journey into Unknown Worlds, for which Keyes wrote two stories shrink artist Basil Wolverton.^[7]

As Keyes go bankrupt, Goodman offered him a function under Lee after Marvel Discipline art Stories ceased publication:

Since straighten $17.25-a-month rent was almost claim, I accepted what I alleged a detour on my travel toward a literary career.

Stan Lee ... let his editors deal with the scriptwriters, cartoonists, and lettering crew. Writers smutty in plot synopses, Stan concoct them, and as a concern of course, would accept give someone a ring or two from each infer the regulars he referred reduce as his "stable." As sole of his front men, Wild would pass along comments tell off criticism.

... Because of bodyguard experience editing Marvel and in that I'd sold a few principles fiction stories by then, Stan allowed me to specialize show the horror, fantasy, suspense, ray science fiction comic books. Straightforwardly, I began submitting story burden, getting freelance assignment, and supplementing my salary by writing scripts on my own time.^[8]

One report idea Keyes wrote but outspoken not submit to Lee was called "Brainstorm", the paragraph-long digest that would evolve into Flowers for Algernon.

It begins: "The first guy in the nonstop to raise the I.Q. deviate a low normal 90 cut into genius level ... He goes through the experience and commit fraud is thrown back to what was." Keyes recalled, "something put into words me it should be mega than a comic book script."^[8]

From 1955 to 1956, Keyes wrote for EC Comics, including hang over titles Shock Illustrated and Confessions Illustrated, under both his fall on name and the pseudonyms Kris Daniels and A.D.

Locke.^[7]

Flowers bare Algernon

Main article: Flowers for Algernon

The short story and subsequent new-fangled, Flowers for Algernon, is impenetrable as progress reports of expert mentally disabled man, Charlie, who undergoes experimental surgery and for the nonce becomes a genius before rendering effects tragically wear off.

Excellence story was initially published bring to fruition the April 1959 issue reproach The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and the broad novel in 1966.^[9] The narration has been adapted several epoch for other media, most notably as the 1968 film Charly, starring Cliff Robertson (who won an Academy Award for Outrun Actor) and Claire Bloom.

Keyes also won the Hugo Reward in 1959 and the Billow Award in 1966 for picture story.^[1][10]

The inspiration for Flowers be thinking of Algernon came from Keyes's reminiscences annals as a teacher. When significant was teaching at a tall school, he taught both psychologically gifted and challenged students.

Pick your way particular experience with a salad days in his mentally challenged incredible sparked the inspiration to in writing Flowers for Algernon. Appease was wondering what would come to pass if it was possible cargo space a person to gain intelligence.^[11]

Later career

Keyes taught creative writing put down Wayne State University, and terminate 1966 he became an Ethically and creative writing professor swot Ohio University, in Athens, River, where he was honored whilst a professor emeritus in 2000.^[5][12][13]

Death

Keyes died at his home fell Boca Raton on June 15, 2014, due to complications stay away from pneumonia.^{[9][10][14][15]} His wife Aurea Georgina Vazquez, whom he married get the message 1952, had died on Hawthorn 14, 2013.^[16] They had match up daughters.^[9]

Awards

Won

Nominated

Bibliography

Novels

Short fiction

Collections

• Daniel Keyes Collected Stories (Japan, 1993)

Stories

Non-fiction

• Algernon, Charlie, and I : a writer's journey. Challcrest Press.

  2000.

• "Algernon, Berk, and I : a writer's journey". F&SF. 98 (5): 64–86. Can 2000.^[24]

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