Daniel Keyes
| Daniel Keyes | |
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| Born |
August 9, 1927 Brooklyn, New York |
| Died | June 15, 2014 (aged 86) Boca Raton, Florida |
| Occupation | Fiction writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | New York University, Brooklyn College |
| Period | 1952–2014 |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Notable works |
Flowers for Algernon (1959) The Minds of Billy Milligan (1981) |
| Notable awards |
Hugo Award (1960) Nebula Award (1966) Kurd Lasswitz Award (1986) Seiun Award (1993) Locus Award (1998) |
| Spouse | Aurea Georgina Vazquez |
| Children | 2 daughters |
| Website | |
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Daniel Keyes (August 9, 1927 – June 15, 2014) was an American writer best known for his Hugo award-winning short story and Nebula award-winning novel Flowers for Algernon. Keyes was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000.
Keyes was born in New York City, New York. He attended New York University briefly before joining the United States Maritime Service at 17, working as a ship's purser on oil tankers. Afterward he returned to New York and in 1950 received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Brooklyn College.
A month after graduation, Keyes joined publisher Martin Goodman's magazine company, Magazine Management. He eventually became editor of their pulp magazine Marvel Science Stories (cover-dated Nov. 1950 – May 1952) after editor Robert O. Erisman, and began writing for the company's comic-book lines Atlas Comics, the 1950s precursors of Marvel Comics. After Goodman ceased publishing pulps in favor of paperback books and men's adventure magazines, Keyes became an associate editor of Atlas under editor-in-chief and art director Stan Lee. Circa 1952, Keyes was one of several staff writers, officially titled editors, who wrote for such horror and science fiction comics as Journey into Unknown Worlds, for which Keyes wrote two stories with artist Basil Wolverton.
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