11 Facts About Daniel Keyes

Daniel Keyes was an American writer who wrote the novel Flowers for Algernon.

Daniel Keyes attended New York University briefly before joining the United States Maritime Service at 17, working as a ship's purser on oil tankers.

Daniel Keyes eventually became an editor of their pulp magazine Marvel Science Stories after editor Robert O Erisman, and began writing for the company's comic-book lines Atlas Comics, the 1950s precursors of Marvel Comics.

Circa 1952, Daniel 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 Daniel Keyes wrote two stories with artist Basil Wolverton.

One story idea Daniel Keyes wrote but did not submit to Lee was called "Brainstorm", the paragraph-long synopsis that would evolve into Flowers for Algernon.

Daniel Keyes goes through the experience and then is thrown back to what was.

From 1955 to 1956, Keyes wrote for EC Comics, including its titles Shock Illustrated and Confessions Illustrated, under both his own name and the pseudonyms Kris Daniels and AD Locke.

Daniel Keyes won the Hugo Award in 1959 and the Nebula Award in 1966 for the story.

Daniel Keyes was wondering what would happen if it was possible for a person to gain intelligence.

Daniel 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.

Daniel Keyes died at his home in Boca Raton on June 15,2014, due to complications from pneumonia.