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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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A few weeks after graduating from Brooklyn College with a bachelor's degree in psychology, Daniel Keyes took a job with Magazine Management, a pulp periodical outfit run by Martin Goodman—best known as the founder of Marvel Comics. Most of Keyes early efforts at storytelling came via his work for various comic books, back before the field got rebranded …

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