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Daniel Keyes
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9 August 1927 - 15 June 2014
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Daniel Keyes was born on August 9, 1927 in New York City. Daniel went to Brooklyn College. After serving in the U.S. Navy, Keyes worked as a school teacher and on the editorial board of Science Fiction magazine. After defending his doctoral dissertation in philology, he continued his teaching practice, and Keyes also taught writing courses in various educational institutions. His first debut publication was The Precedent, published in the pages of Marvel Science Fiction in 1952. Success brought
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Daniel Keyes was born on August 9, 1927 in New York City. Daniel went to Brooklyn College. After serving in the U.S. Navy, Keyes worked as a school teacher and on the editorial board of Science Fiction magazine. After defending his doctoral dissertation in philology, he continued his teaching practice, and Keyes also taught writing courses in various educational institutions.
His first debut publication was The Precedent, published in the pages of Marvel Science Fiction in 1952. Success brought him the story “Flowers for Algernon” in 1959 and published in 1966 on its basis novel. Daniel is known for being the only writer in the world to have won two of the most prestigious awards in science English-language fiction: the Hugo Award in 1960 for Flowers for Algernon and the Nebula Award in 1996 for a novel based on his famous short story.
Keys has been published in Russian since 1967. His works were included in the tenth volume of “Libraries of Modern Fiction”. His most famous works are: Milligan's Wars (at the moment this book is published only in Japan), Billy Milligan's Multiple Minds, Touch, Fifth Sally, Mad Maro, Until Death. In 1968, his famous story “Flowers for Algeron” was filmed, director Ralph Nelson based on this work shot the successful film “Charlie”. Actor Cliff Robertson, who played the main role in this film, received an Oscar.
In 2006, the famous story was again honored to appear on the big screen as a film called
Flowers for Algeron" where Daniel Keyes acted as a screenwriter. Currently, Keyes lives in America (Ohio), works as a professor of literature at the State University. He is married to Ori Vasquez and has two daughters.