Author

Books by Daniel Keyes

Daniel Keyes was an American author and university professor best known for Flowers for Algernon, which began as a short story in 1959 and won the Hugo Award before Keyes expanded it to novel form in 1966. The novel won the Nebula Award and has been continuously in print for six decades. It was adapted for film as Charly in 1968, which won Cliff Robertson an Academy Award for Best Actor. Keyes taught creative writing and English literature at Ohio University for many years. He died in 2014.