Daniel Keyes's Works

Keyes with his 1966 Nebula Award

WORKS:

• Short Stories
  
  "Flowers for Algernon" 1959
  -Published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
  -reprinted in many languages
  -won the Hugo Award in 1960 for best novelette
  

  At the 18th World Science Fiction Convention in Pittsburgh in 1960, Isaac Asimov handed Keyes the Hugo Award for the Best Novelette of 1959 and "he praised it lavishly" (Keyes).

• Novels
  
  Flowers for Algernon 1966
  -won the Nebula Award in 1966
  -widely translated and taught in schools
  
  The Touch 1968
  -human tragedy connected with a radiation accident
  
  The Fifth Sally 1980
  -1st novel to deal with multiple personality disorder
  
  Until Death 1998
  -double homicide in Florida and the issue of competency for execution

• Nonfiction books
  
  The Minds of Billy Milligan 1981
  -about the 1st person in history to be acquitted of major crimes because he suffers from multiple personality disorder
  -won Germany's Kurd Lasswitz Award for "Best Book by a Foreign Author"
  -nominated for the "Edgar Award" by the Mystery Writers of America
  
  The Milligan Wars: A True-Story Sequel 1994
  
  Unveiling Claudia 1986
  
  Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's Journey 2000
  -retraces his life experiences and event that led to his creation of Flowers for Algernon
  
  
  

AWARDS:

1960 Hugo Award for "Flowers for Algernon"
(pictured left)

1966 Nebula Award for Flowers for Algernon
(pictured right)

1986 Kurd Lasswitz Award for best book by a foreign author for The Minds of Billy Milligan

1986 Edgar Allan Poe Award nomination for Unveiling Claudia: A True Story of a Serial Murder

1986 Baker Fund Award, Ohio University

1988, "Distinguished Alumnus Medal of Honor" from Brooklyn College

2000, Professor emeritus status at Ohio University

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