He also continued writing books, including The Fifth Sally, The Minds of Billy Milligan, Unveiling Claudia, and his memoir, Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's Journey. After the success ofFlowers for Algernon, Keyes taught at Ohio University. in 1927, Keyes got his start as the editor of Marvel Science Stories, later writing comics himself and working under Stan Lee. The story was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film starring Cliff Robertson in 1968.īorn in Brooklyn, N.Y. Keyes won the Hugo Award for the short story in 1960, and a Nebula Award in 1966 for the expanded novel. Charlie becomes a genius, only to lose everything when the process reverses itself. Charlie undergoes an experimental surgery to increase his intelligence, first performed on the mouse Algernon with apparent success. It is narrated by Charlie Gordon, a young man with an IQ of 68 who cannot even spell his own name. Keyes originally published Flowers for Algernon as a short story in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1959. N° de ref.Daniel Keyes, the author of the popular 1966 novel, Flowers for Algernon, died Sunday at his home in Florida. The Oscar-winning movie adaptation Charly (1968) also spawned a 1980 Broadway musical.
As a 1959 novella it won a Hugo Award the 1966 novel-length expansion won a Nebula. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life.
With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Linnea Loge a fine writing student, for whom it is a pleasure to inscribe this- Best Wishes Daniel Keyes Athens Ohio, February 3, 1967." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. First edition of the author's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel, basis for the Oscar award-winning movie adaptation Charly.
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