The novel has been adapted several times for other media, most prominently as the 1968 film Charly, starring Cliff Robertson (who won an Academy Award for Best Actor) and Claire Bloom.
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Circa 1952, Keyes was one of several staff writers, officially titled editors, who wrote for such horror and science fiction comics as Journey into Unknown Worlds, for which Keyes wrote two stories with artist Basil Wolverton.
The episode's writer, Brad Wright was somewhat inspired by the Daniel Keyes novel, Flowers for Algernon for the plot of the episode.
The album's title was inspired by The Minds of Billy Milligan, a biographical novel written by Daniel Keyes about the true account of multiple personality serial criminal Billy Milligan.
The test is also given to the main characters in two widely-differing tales about the human mind: A Clockwork Orange and Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon.
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In 1968, a controversy brewed up when a local Baptist minister attempted to get the school to not use the novels Demian by Hermann Hesse, The Emperor of Ice-Cream by Brian More, and Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes in an English class.
Flowers for Algernon, a science fiction short story and subsequent novel written by Daniel Keyes