Keys also received the Hugo Award in 1959 and the Nebula Award in 1966 for the story. (who won the Academy Award for Best Actor) and Claire Bloom. The story was originally published in the April 1959 issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction and published in an expanded novel in 1966. Keyes was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York.
Keyes was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000. Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writers Journey (2000) also appeared as: Translation: Algernon, Charlie et moi: Trajectoire dun crivain French (2011).
The short story and subsequent novel Flowers for Algernon are written as reports on the condition of a mentally retarded man, Charlie, who undergoes an experimental operation and briefly becomes a genius before the consequences tragically wear off. Daniel Keyes was an American author best known for his Hugo award-winning short story and Nebula award-winning novel Flowers for Algernon. After that, he left New York and taught creative writing courses at Wayne State University.ĭaniel Keyes entered the history of science fiction with the short story "Flowers for Algernon", which was published in 1959 and received the "Hugo" in 1960. At the same time he graduated from the correspondence department of Brooklyn College with a degree in Anglo-American literature and received a master's degree. In the early 50s, the future writer worked for some time as a junior editor of a literary magazine, a photographer in a fashion magazine, taught English at school and taught Sunday writing courses. After the war, he served in the Navy for three years, then left the military, graduated from Brooklyn College and received a bachelor's degree in psychology. Daniel Keyes was born on Augin New York, in a family of immigrants from Ukraine.
0 kommentar(er)
