Daniel Keyes, author of “Flowers for Algernon,” died Sunday, June 15, 2014. He was 86.
Keyes got his start in the pulp magazines. After graduating from college in 1950, he was associate editor of Marvel Science Stories during its revival as a pulp and digest for six issues in 1950-52.
He was best known for his short story “Flowers for Algernon,” which appeared in the April 1959 number of the SF digest The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. He won a Hugo for the story. He expanded it into a novel, which was published in 1966 and won a Nebula.
Cliff Robertson won an Academy Award as the title character in “Charly,” a 1968 film based on the novel.
Locus Online has a slightly longer obituary for Keyes.
