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Daniel Keyes was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was an American author best known for his Hugo award-winning short story and Nebula award-winning novel Flowers for Algernon. He received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Brooklyn College. He began writing for the company's comic-book lines Atlas Comics, the 1950s precursors of Marvel Comics. He taught creative writing at Wayne State University, and in 1966 he became an English and creative writing professor at Ohio University, in Athens, Ohio, where he was honored as a professor emeritus in 2000.