Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper, and the gentle butt of everyone's
jokes, until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him
into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental
tranformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the
possibility that his salvation was only temporary.
About The Author:
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in New York, Daniel Keyes received his B.A. in psychology from Brooklyn
College. After earning his license to teach and his M.A. degree, Keyes left New
York to teach creative writing at Wayne State University. Keyes's Nebula
award-winning first novel, Flowers for Algernon, has seen phenomenal