The same year, Keyes was given professor emeritus status at Ohio University. It sold a million copies in Japan, and Keyes produced a sequel in 1994 called The Milligan Wars.In 2000, Keyes published Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer’s Journey, a memoir detailing his life and experiences with Flowers for Algernon. The Minds of Billy Milligan, a nonfiction novel about a criminal with 24 personalities, was also quite popular. His novel The Touch was published in 1968, and The Fifth Sally appeared in 1980. After the release of Flowers for Algernon, Keyes went on to write several other books. To this day, the book has never been out of print, and has been adapted into movies, plays, and even a musical. In 1966, he left Wayne State and joined the English Department of Ohio University, where he taught creative writing until the early 1990s.įlowers for Algernon sold out its first printing of 5,000 copies in only a couple of days. The acclaim for the book led Keyes to search for a teaching position with tenure. The novel received praise not only from the science fiction community, which gave the book the 1966 Nebula Award for Best Novel, but also Publishers Weekly and The New York Times. The Virginia Kirkus Bulletin proved to be the lone exception the other critics were raving.
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