Daniel Keyes (1927-2014)
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Author Daniel Keyes, 86, died June 15, 2014.
Keyes is best known for his Hugo Award winning classic SF story “Flowers for Algernon” (F&SF, 1959), the Nebula Award winning and bestselling 1966 novel expansion, and the film version Charly (1968).
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Date: 2014-06-18 02:12 am (UTC)Early-grade-school curriculum was all Old Dead Guys. And nobody *ever* made a distinction between Old Dead Guy and Not Dead Guy. So I've mentally filed a great many early-grade-school authors as "obviously dead".