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Daniel Keyes

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Daniel Keyes (1927 - 2014) was born in Brooklyn, New York, and received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Brooklyn College. He was the author of eight books, including the classic Flowers for Algernon, first published in 1966, which would go on to sell more than five million copies and inspire the film Charly. He also worked as a merchant seaman, fiction editor, high school teacher, and university professor, and won the Hugo and Nebula awards for his work.
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Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes's poignant science fiction masterpiece, first appeared as a short story in 1959 before being expanded into a novel in 1966. The novel has become a modern classic, frequently taught in schools and adapted into various media, most famously the 1968 film Charly, for which Cliff Robertson won an Academy Award for Best Actor.

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