I was kind of nervous, because Horace was an important editor, and that was only my fifth short story I was submitting for publication. Have a cup of coffee, read a magazine.' Horace was an agoraphobic who ran poker games Friday night to Saturday dawn in his First Avenue apartment, and his office for Galaxy was there too. I called Horace Gold, and he said, 'Bring it over. In the '70s, when it was made into a musical in London and on Broadway, they tried to change the ending - nobody has ever been able to change that ending, and I'm happy for that!" The story, the novel, the movie Charly got the Academy Award for Cliff Robertson. is still in print in both hardcover and paperback, and studied in high schools all across the country. " Flowers for Algernon has been published in about 30 countries, and each year I'm getting new foreign translations, and deals for reprints. The sequel will be published in the US by Bantam when the film version of the first book appears from Warner, as The Crowded Room. Nonfiction works include The Minds of Billy Milligan (1982), a sequel to which has appeared in Japan as The Milligan Wars: A True-Story Sequel (1994).
Later works include the quasi-SF thriller The Touch (1968 UK 1977 as The Contaminated Man), and The Fifth Sally (1980). It was expanded to the novel Flowers for Algernon (1966) and in that form tied for the Nebula Award in 1967. (excerpted from Locus Magazine, June 1997)ĭaniel Keyes is best known for "Flowers for Algernon", which won a 1960 Hugo for its original novelette version.
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