for other media, most prominently as the 1968 film Charly, starring Cliff Robertson (who won an Academy Award for Best Actor) and Claire Bloom. Keyes also won the Hugo Award in 1959 and the Nebula Award in 1966 for the story. Later career Keyes 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. Death Keyes died at his home in Boca Raton on June 15, 2014, due to complications from pneumonia. His wife Aurea Georgina Vazquez, whom he married in 1952, had died in 2013. They had two daughters. Awards Won 1960: Hugo Award for the story "Flowers for Algernon" 1966: Nebula Award for the novel Flowers for Algernon 1986: Kurd Lasswitz Award for The Minds of Billy Milligan 1993: Seiun Award (Non-Fiction of the Year) for The Minds of Billy Milligan 2000: Author Emeritus Award from Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America 2014: Life Time Award Nominated 1967: Hugo Award for the novel Flowers for Algernon 1982: Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime for The Minds of Billy Milligan 1987: Edgar Award for the American Association of Mystery Writers for Unveiling Claudia Bibliography Novels Flowers for Algernon (novel, 1966) adapted for cinema as Charly, 1968, and as Flowers for Algernon, 2000 The Touch (1968; re-edited and published as The Contaminated Man, 1977) The Fifth Sally (1980) The Minds of Billy Milligan (1981) Unveiling Claudia (1986) The Milligan Wars: A True-Story Sequel (Japan, 1994) Until Death (1998) The Asylum Prophecies (2009) Short fiction Collections Daniel Keyes Collected Stories (Japan, 1993) Stories Non-fiction References External links 1927 births 2014 deaths 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American short story writers 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American short story writers American comics writers American magazine editors American male non-fiction writers American male novelists American male short story writers American military personnel of World War II American psychological fiction writers American sailors American science fiction writers Brooklyn College alumni Deaths from pneumonia in Florida EC Comics Hugo Award-winning writers Jewish American novelists Marvel Comics people Military personnel from New York City Military personnel from New York (state) Nebula Award winners Novelists from Michigan Novelists from New York (state) Novelists from Ohio Ohio University faculty The Magazine of Fantasy