Daniel Keyes

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Daniel Keyes
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Daniel Keyes
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New York City, U.S.
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Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.
OccupationFiction writer
Alma materNew York University
Brooklyn College
Period1952–2014
GenreScience fiction
Notable worksFlowers for Algernon (1959)
The Minds of Billy Milligan (1981)
Notable awardsHugo Award (1960)
Nebula Award (1966)
Kurd Lasswitz Award (1986)
Seiun Award (1993)
SpouseAurea Georgina Vazquez
Website
www.danielkeyesauthor.com

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Daniel Keyes (August 9, 1927 – June 15, 2014) was an American writer best known as the author of the novel Flowers for Algernon. Keyes was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000.[1]

Biography

Early life and career

Keyes was born in New York City, New York.[2] His family was Jewish.[3][4] He attended New York University briefly before joining the United States Maritime Service at 17, working as a ship's purser on oil tankers.[2] Afterward he returned to New York and in 1950 received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Brooklyn College.[2]

A month after graduation, Keyes joined publisher Martin Goodman's magazine company, Magazine Management.[2] He eventually became an editor of their pulp magazine Marvel Science Stories[5] (cover-dated Nov. 1950 – May 1952) after editor Robert O. Erisman,[6] and began writing for the company's comic-book lines Atlas Comics, the 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 of Atlas[1] under editor-in-chief and art director Stan Lee. Circa 1952, Keyes was one of several staff writers, officially titled editors, who wrote for such horror and science fiction comics as Journey into Unknown Worlds, for which Keyes wrote two stories with artist Basil Wolverton.[7]

As Keyes recalled, Goodman offered him a job under Lee after Marvel Science Stories ceased publication:

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One story idea Keyes wrote but did not submit to Lee was called "Brainstorm", the paragraph-long synopsis that would evolve into Flowers for Algernon. It begins: "The first guy in the test to raise the I.Q. from a low normal 90 to genius level ... He goes through the experience and then is thrown back to what was." Keyes recalled, "something told me it should be more than a comic book script."[8]

From 1955 to 1956, Keyes wrote for EC Comics, including its titles Psychoanalysis, Shock Illustrated, and Confessions Illustrated, under both his own name and the pseudonyms Kris Daniels and A.D. Locke.[7]

Flowers for Algernon

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". The short story and subsequent novel, Flowers for Algernon, is written as progress reports of a mentally disabled man, Charlie, who undergoes experimental surgery and briefly becomes a genius before the effects tragically wear off. The story was initially published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and the expanded novel in 1966.[9] The novel has been adapted several times for other media, most prominently as the 1968 film Charly, starring Cliff Robertson (who won an Academy Award for Best Actor) and Claire Bloom. Keyes also won the Hugo Award in 1959 and the Nebula Award in 1966 for the story.[1][10]

The inspiration for Flowers for Algernon came from Keyes's experiences as a teacher. When he was teaching at a high school, he taught both mentally gifted and challenged students. One particular experience with a boy in his mentally challenged class sparked the inspiration to begin writing Flowers for Algernon. He was wondering what would happen if it was possible for a person to gain intelligence.[11]

Later career

Keyes taught creative writing at Wayne State University, and in 1966 he became an English and creative writing professor at Ohio University, in Athens, Ohio, where he was honored as a professor emeritus in 2000.[5]Template:R/superscript[12][13]

Death

Keyes died at his home in Boca Raton on June 15, 2014, due to complications from pneumonia.[9][10][14][15] His wife Aurea Georgina Vazquez, whom he married in 1952, had died on May 14, 2013.[16] They had two daughters.[9]

Awards

Won

Nominated

Bibliography

Novels

Short fiction

Title Year First published Notes
"Precedent" 1952 Marvel Science Fiction, Vol. 3, No. 6
"Robot Unwanted" Other Worlds, #19
"Something Borrowed" Fantastic Story, Vol. 4, #1
"The Trouble With Elmo" 1958 Galaxy, XVI, 4
"Flowers for Algernon" 1959 Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Keyes, Daniel (April 1959). "Flowers for Algernon". F&SF. 16 (4). Expanded as a novel, 1966.
"Crazy Maro" 1960 The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Vol. 18, 4 Paired with the essay "What Do Characters Cost?"
"The Quality of Mercy" IF, Vol. X, 5
"A Jury of its Peers" 1963 Worlds of Tomorrow, Vol. 1, No. 3
"Spellbinder" 1967 North American Review, Vol. 4 No. 4
"Mama's Girl" 1993 Daniel Keyes Collected Stories

Collections

  • Daniel Keyes Collected Stories (Kayakawa, 1993)[23]
  • Daniel Keyes Reader (Hayakawa, 1994)[23]

Non-fiction

  • The Minds of Billy Milligan (1981)[24]
  • Unveiling Claudia (1986)
  • The Milligan Wars: A True-Story Sequel (Hayakawa, 1994)
  • Algernon, Charlie and I: A Writer's Journey (Challcrest Press, 2000)

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."In Memoriam – Daniel Keyes 1927–2014". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. June 17, 2014. Retrieved June 17, 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Chambers, Robert, ed. (1993). The Play of Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon. Heinemann. p. vii. ISBN 978-0-435-23293-1. Retrieved June 19, 2014.
  3. ^ The National Jewish Monthly, B'nai B'rith, vol. 82-83 (1967), p. 172
  4. ^ Research Studies, Washington State University, vol. 40 (1972), p. 53
  5. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Budrys, Algis (August 1966). "Galaxy Bookshelf". Galaxy Science Fiction. pp. 186–194.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ashley, Michael (2005). Transformations: Volume 2 in the History of Science Fiction Magazine, 1950–1970. Liverpool University Press. p. 42. ISBN 978-0853237693. daniel Keyes marvel comics.
  7. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Daniel Keyes". Grand Comics Database. Retrieved June 19, 2014.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Keyes, Daniel (1999). Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's Journey. Boca Raton, FL: Challcrest Press Books. pp. 79–80. ISBN 978-0-547-56408-1.
  9. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Slotnik, Daniel E. (June 17, 2014). "Daniel Keyes, a Novelist of the Mind, Dies at 86". The New York Times. Retrieved June 17, 2014.
  10. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Langer, Emily (June 18, 2014). "Daniel Keyes, author of the classic book 'Flowers for Algernon,' dies at 86". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 19, 2014.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Meet American writer Daniel Keyes". Wayne State University. Retrieved May 5, 2023.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Winters, Rae (December 1, 2009). "Keyes Biography". Retrieved June 17, 2014.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Woodward, Dwight (Fall 2000). "'Algernon' lives on". Ohio Today. Ohio University. Archived from the original on September 15, 2016. Retrieved June 17, 2014.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Daniel Keyes (1927–2014)". Locus Online. June 17, 2014. Retrieved June 17, 2014.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sedensky, Matt (June 18, 2014). "Daniel Keyes, novelist whose "Flowers for Algernon" is a classroom staple, dies at 86". Toronto Star. Associated Press. Retrieved June 20, 2014.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Aurea KEYES Obituary (2013) - Boca Raton, FL - the Palm Beach Post". Legacy.com.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."1960 Hugo Awards". Hugo Awards. Archived from the original on May 7, 2011. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."KLP 1986 Preisträger" (in Deutsch). Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis. Archived from the original on April 3, 2019. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."sfadb: Seiun Awards 1993". www.sfadb.com. Retrieved October 15, 2015.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."1967 Hugo Awards". Hugo Awards. Archived from the original on February 11, 2012. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  21. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Edgar Award Winners and Nominees Database". Mystery Writers of America. Archived from the original on September 27, 2018. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  22. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Daniel Keyes: 40 Years of Algernon (excerpt)". Locus. June 1997. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
  23. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Encyclopedia of the American Short Story (3rd ed.). 2015.
  24. ^ (film adaptation unproduced as of August 2014) The film adaptation of The Minds of Billy Milligan, originally announced as A Crowded Room (under James Cameron) then as The Crowded Room (under Joel Schumacher), was at some point announced for 2008, but did not materialize. As of August 2014, the film remains in limbo [1] and its IMDb entry (Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."in-development entry". IMDb. Archived from the original on November 29, 2010. Retrieved August 8, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)) has been deleted.

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