Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes (1927 - )Born in Brooklyn in 1927, Daniel Keyes worked as merchant seaman, editor and university lecturer. He has published four other novels, but Flowers for Algernon, originally a short story, for which he won the Hugo Award, later expanded into the Nebula Award-winning novel and adapted as an Oscar-winning film (Charly, 1968) remains his best-known work. Daniel Keyes has a masters degree in English and American literature and is a Professor of English and Creative writing.