Daniel Keyes was born in Brooklyn in 1923. He studied psychology and literature, earning his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Brooklyn College. Keyes built a resume out of odd jobs from; photographer, merchant seaman, ship's
pursers, fiction editor, and English teacher at Ohio University.
Keyes first conceived "Flowers for Algernon" as a short story in 1959. In 1960 he won the Hugo award for best Novelette of the year from the World Science Fiction
Society. Six years later in '66 the story came to small screen in a televised
play, "The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon. The short story was expanded into a
full-length, novel in the same year as the televised play. The longer expanded
novel inspired a film in 1968, "Charley".
pursers, fiction editor, and English teacher at Ohio University.
Keyes first conceived "Flowers for Algernon" as a short story in 1959. In 1960 he won the Hugo award for best Novelette of the year from the World Science Fiction
Society. Six years later in '66 the story came to small screen in a televised
play, "The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon. The short story was expanded into a
full-length, novel in the same year as the televised play. The longer expanded
novel inspired a film in 1968, "Charley".