BIOGRAPHY OF DANIEL KEYES

Daniel Keyes, the well known author for Flowers For Algernon, was born in New York and is now a resident of Southern Florida. He joined the U.S. Maritime Service at the age of 17 and served as a ship purser. Then when he got out of the army, he went back to study in Brooklyn College, now CUNY. He received a B.A. Degree in psychology. He also was an associate fiction editor but left to join the fashion photography business. Then he earned his license to teach writing in New York City Schools. While teaching, he went back to Brooklyn College to get his degree on English and American Literature. After he received the M.A. degree, he left to teach creative writing Wayne State University, but then joined Ohio University as a Professor of English and Creative Writing. Brooklyn College awarded him for his award winning book, Flowers For Algernon.

Flowers for Algernon was translate world-wide an is studied in schools and colleges everywhere. April 1995, Harcourt Brace r-published the book. Also it was released by Parrot Audio Books, narrated by Daniel Keyes HIMSELF. Cliff Robertson won an Oscar for making the book into a movie called CHARLY. "The novel was also adapted as a stage play, and after productions in France, Poland and in Japan, it was adapted with Japanese background for a Japanese production, and televised by NHK. Developed as a dramatic musical, "Charlie and Algernon" was performed at the Queen's Theater in London's West End (starring Michael Crawford), at the Terrace and Eisenhower theaters in Washington, D.C. and at the Helen Hayes on Broadway." (Keyes, H. "Daniel Keyes Bio". H. Keyes, Spider-Hill Design. 4/21/09 <http://danielkeyesauthor.com/dbsbio.html>.) After the famous novel, he published 3 more novels; THE TOUCH, which deals with human tragedy connecting with a radiation accident, THE FIFTH SALLY, which was the first novel to talk about multiple personality disorder, and his latest work, UNTIL DEATH..., which is a novel which talked about a double homicide n Florida and problems that comes along about the competency for execution. The book was published in Japan on February 18, 1998 with the Japanese title UNTIL DEATH DO US PART: THE SLEEPING PRINCESS. Adding to that he wrote 3 nonfiction books; THE MINDS OF BILLY MILLIGAN, which is about the first in history to acquit major crimes because of multiple personality problems, THE MILLIGAN WARS: A TRUE-STORY SEQUEL, and UNVEILING CLAUDIA, which is about a murder issue. His latest book, ALGERNON, CHARLIE, AND I: A WRITER'S JOURNEY, is a book the retraces his steps that he took when he was writing FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON. Not only that but there is a TV movie of FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON.You can visit him in New york in his book signing conference soon.

-Opal Lim