Daniel Keyes (August 9, 1927 – June 15, 2014) was an American writer best known as the author of the novel Flowers for Algernon. Keyes was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000. He attended New York University briefly before joining the United States Maritime Service at 17, working as a ship's purser on oil tankers. (cover-dated Nov. 1950 – May 1952) after editor Robert O. Erisman,
Later career
Keyes taught creative writing at Wayne State University, and in 1966 he became an English and creative writing professor at Ohio University, in Athens, Ohio, where he was honored as a professor emeritus in 2000. They had two daughters.
- 2000: Author Emeritus Award from Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Nominated
- 1967: Hugo Award for the novel Flowers for Algernon
- Daniel Keyes Reader (Hayakawa, 1994)
- Unveiling Claudia (1986)
- The Milligan Wars: A True-Story Sequel (Hayakawa, 1994)
- Algernon, Charlie and I: A Writer's Journey (Challcrest Press, 2000)