Algernon, Charlie and I: A Writer's Journey : Plus the Complete Original Short Novelette Version of "Flowers for Algernon"

by Keyes, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9781929519002
• ISBN10: 1929519001
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Challenge Pr Inc

Summary

In the short novelette, "Flowers for Algernon," and in the novel version that followed, author Daniel Keyes created an unlikely duo that has captured the hearts and minds of readers around the world. It is the classic story--part of which has now come true--of an experiment to increase intelligence, in which researchers first transform a laboratory mouse named Algernon into a genius. Charlie Gordon, who tells them, "I want to be smart," eagerly volunteers to follow in Algernon's four-legged footsteps through the maze of acquiring knowledge and learning about life.

Author Biography

Keyes, Professor Emeritus of Ohio University, resides with his wife in South Florida. They have two adult daughters.

Table of Contents

The Maze of Time
My Writing Cellar	p. 11
The White Mouse	p. 17
Second Acting	p. 22
Breaking Dishes	p. 27
I Become Ship's Doctor	p. 36
From Ship to Shrink
Inkblots	p. 53
The Boy on Book Mountain	p. 59
Silence of the Psychoanalysts	p. 67
First Published Stories	p. 74
Editing Pulps and Writing Comic Books	p. 81
Mind Over Matter
Looking for Charlie	p. 91
Charlie Finds Me	p. 94
Getting There	p. 100
Rejection and Acceptance	p. 110
The Alchemy of Writing
Transformations: From Story To Teleplay To Novel	p. 117
Rejected Again	p. 123
Of Love and Endings	p. 130
We Find A Home	p. 138
Post-Publication Blues
"Don't Hide Your Light Under A Bushel"	p. 147
When Are Writers Like Saints?	p. 153
"Charly" Goes Hollywood	p. 156
Broadway Bound	p. 163
And Then What Happened?	p. 172
Afterword: My "What Would Happen If...?" is Happening	p. 178
Acknowledgments	p. 183
"Flowers for Algernon" Complete original novelette version	p. 187
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