Flowers For Algernon

A modern classic, Flowers for Algernon has sold over fivemillion copies worldwide and inspired the Academy Award-winning film Charly.

A masterpiece of poignant brilliance . . . heartbreaking’Guardian Charlie Gordon, a floor sweeper born with an unusually low IQ, hasbeen chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that doctorshope will increase his intelligence – a procedure that has been highlysuccessful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon.

All Charlie wants is to be smart and have friends, but thetreatment turns him into a genius.

Then Algernon begins to fade. What will become of Charlie?

About the Author

Daniel Keyes (1927 – 2014) was born in Brooklyn, New York,and received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Brooklyn College.

He was the author of eight books, including the classicFlowers for Algernon, first published in 1966, which would go on to sell morethan five million copies and inspire the film Charly.

He also worked as a merchant seaman, fiction editor, highschool teacher, and university professor, and won the Hugo and Nebula awardsfor his work.