Daniel Keyes
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Daniel Keyes (August 9, 1927 – June 15, 2014) was an American writer who wrote the novel Flowers for Algernon.
Keyes was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000.
Early life and career
Keyes was born in New York City, New York. His family was Jewish. He attended New York University for a brief time before joining the United States Maritime Service at 17 and serving as a ship's purser on oil tankers. After returning to New York, he earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Brooklyn College in 1950.
Keyes joined publisher Martin Goodman's magazine company, Magazine Management, a month after graduating. He eventually became an editor of Marvel Science Stories (cover-dated Nov. 1950 to May 1952), following editor Robert O. Erisman's retirement from the company's comic-book lines Atlas Comics, the 1950s precursors of Marvel Comics. Keyes became an associate editor of Atlas under editor-in-chief and art director Stan Lee after Goodman stopped publishing pulps in favour of paperback books and men's adventure magazines. Keyes, a 1952, Keyes was one of several staff writers, sometimes titled editors, who wrote for such horror and science fiction comics as Journey to Unknown Worlds, for which Keyes wrote two stories with artist Basil Wolverton.
Goodman, a comic book author, recalled, as Keyes recalled, was given a job under Lee after Marvel Science Stories stopped being published:
Keyes wrote one story idea but didn't submit to Lee was called "brainstorm," the paragraph-long synopsis that would develop into Flowers for Algernon. "The first guy in the test to raise the I.Q." From a low 90s to a genius level... He goes through the experience and then is brought right back to what was" and is thrown right back to what was once." "Something told me it should be more than a comic book script," Keyes explained.
Keyes wrote for EC Comics from 1955 to 1956, including its titles Shock Illustrated and Confessions Illustrated, as well as the pseudonyms Kris Daniels and A.D. Locke.
The short story and subsequent book, Flowers for Algernon, is published as progress reports of a mentally impaired man, Charlie, who underwent experimental surgery and briefly became a genius before the effects tragically wear off. The tale appeared in the magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction's April 1959 issue as well as the expanded version in 1966. The novel has been adapted several times for other media, most notable for its 1968 film Charly, which earned an Academy Award for Best Actor) and Claire Bloom. In 1959 and 1966, Keyes won the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for the story.
In 1966, Keyes taught creative writing at Wayne State University, Athens, Ohio, where he was honoured as a professor emeritus in 2000.
Keyes died at his Boca Raton home on June 15, 2014, as a result of pneumonia complications. Aurea Georgina Vazquez, his wife who married in 1952, died in 2013. They had two daughters.
Later career
Keyes taught creative writing at Wayne State University, and in 1966, he became an English and creative writing instructor at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he was honoured as a professor emeritus in 2000.
On June 15, 2014, Keyes died at his Boca Raton home due to pneumonia complications. Aurea Georgina Vazquez, his wife, died in 2013. They had two children.