Daniel Keyes

Daniel Keyes (1927-2014) was an American writer born in New York City. He served in the U.S. Maritime Service as a teenager, took a psychology degree at Brooklyn College, and worked as a magazine and comics editor before turning to fiction.

His short story "Flowers for Algernon" won the 1960 Hugo Award, and the novel expansion won the 1966 Nebula Award. His non-fiction account of a man with dissociative identity disorder, The Minds of Billy Milligan (1981), won Japan's Seiun Award. He taught creative writing at Wayne State University and then at Ohio University, where he became professor emeritus in 2000.