![]() Going against his editor's advice proved rewarding, for the story of Charlie's mental rise and fall pulled on the public's heartstrings and achieved enduring success. ![]() " Horace came in from the other room and said, 'Dan, this is a good story, but I'm gonna tell you how to make it a great story: Charlie does not lose his intelligence he remains a super-genius, and he and Alice fall in love, they get married, and live happily ever after.'." In a 1997 interview with Locus Magazine, Keyes recalled clashing with his editors over the story's tragic ending: Keyes first conceived Flowers for Algernon as a short story in 1959, for which he won the 1960 Hugo Award for Best Novelette of the Year from the World Science Fiction Society. Keyes subsequently built a colorful résumé of odd jobs, including photographer, merchant seaman, ship's purser, fiction editor, high school teacher, and English professor at Ohio University. ![]() ![]() He studied psychology and literature, earning his undergraduate and masters degrees from Brooklyn College. A native New Yorker and hero of the science-fiction genre, author Daniel Keyes was born in Brooklyn in 1923. ![]()
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