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Flowers for Algernon

Flowers for Algernon

Women's Fiction

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  • Author: Daniel Keyes

    Pages: 311

    Format: Paperback

    ISBN: 9780156030304

    Publication date: May 01, 2005

    Language: ENG- English

  • Themes

    • Science fiction
    • Brain
    • Surgery
    • Gifted persons
    • Psychological fiction
    • People with mental disabilities

    Protagonist age: 30s

    Setting:

    • United States
  • Blurb

    Short story originally published in 1959, expanded novel published in 1966.

  • About the Author

    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 Oscar-winning film Charly. He also worked as a merchant seaman, a fiction editor, a high school teacher, and as a university professor at Ohio University, where he was honored at Professor Emeritus in 2000. He won the Hugo and Nebula awards for his work and was chosen as an Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000.