Flowers for Algernon

Name: Flowers for Algernon
Author: Daniel Keyes

by Daniel Keyes

Science fiction novella about a man enhanced to genius who gradually loses his mind

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Daniel Keyes

Daniel Keyes was an American author whose Flowers for Algernon is one of the most emotionally devastating science fiction novels of the twentieth century. The story of a mentally disabled man whose intelligence is artificially enhanced and then declines won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards in different formats. It remains a staple of school curricula worldwide.

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