Algernon, Charlie and I: A Writer's Journey : Plus the Complete Original Short Novelette Version of "Flowers for Algernon"
by Keyes, DanielFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-02-01
Publisher(s): Challenge Pr Inc
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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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