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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).

- See more at: http://www.locusmag.com/News/2014/06/daniel-keyes-1927-2014/#sthash.1aojIyJU.dpuf

Date: 2014-06-18 02:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theweaselking.livejournal.com
... I have to admit, my reaction was "HOLY SHIT HE WAS STILL ALIVE?"

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".

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