American literature of the second half of 20 century

Career Change

• Moving from teaching to writing, he was the editor of a pulp magazine (pulp magazines were inexpensively made comic books)
• Eventually became the associate editor for Stan Lee, creator of Marvel Comics
• Pen names: Kris Daniels, A.D. Locke, Dominik George

Flowers for Algernon

• Story follows a mentally disabled man, and his experiments with medicine
• Initially published in a 1959 magazine as a short story
• Keyes “fleshed out” or expanded the story to a novel in 1966
• Made into a TV movie, feature film, and Broadway play
• Sold 5 million copies and translated into 27 languages