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Flowers for Algernon Author Keyes Dead at 86
 Flowers for Algernon 
 Author Dead at 86 
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Jun 18, 2014 10:24 AM CDT

Flowers for Algernon Author Dead at 86

Daniel Keyes' sci-fi masterpiece has never gone out of print

(Newser) - Daniel Keyes, the scribe best known for Flowers for Algernon, the tender story of a mentally retarded man who yearns to be smarter, has died at age 86 of complications from pneumonia. The idea for Algernon hit him as he awaited a train in Brooklyn in 1945, reports the New ...

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