Table of Contents
Title Page
Table of Contents
Half Title
Copyright
Contents
Part One
1. My Writing Cellar
2. The White Mouse
3. Second Acting
4. Breaking Dishes
5. I Become Ship's Doctor
Part Two
6. Inkblots
7. The Boy on Book Mountain
8. Silence of the Psychoanalysts
9. First Published Stories
10. Editing Pulps and Writing Comic Books
Part Three
11. Looking for Charlie
12. Charlie Finds Me
13. Getting There
14. Rejection and Acceptance
Part Four
15. Transformations: From Story to Teleplay to Novel
16. Rejected Again
17. Of Love and Endings
18. We Find a Home
Part Five
19. "Don't Hide Your Light Under a Bushel"
20. When Are Writers Like Saints?
21. Charly Goes Hollywood
22. Broadway Bound
23. And Then What Happened?
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Flowers for Algernon
...
Copyright © 1999 by Daniel Keyes
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or
transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including
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Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be
mailed to the following address: Permissions Department, Harcourt, Inc.
,6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida 32887-6777.
First published by Challenge Press, 2000
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Keyes, Daniel.
Algernon, Charlie, and I: a writer's journey/Daniel Keyes. —1st Harvest ed.
p. cm. —(A Harvest book)
ISBN 0-15-602999-5
ISBN-13 978-0-15-602999-5
1. Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon—Sources. 2. People with mental
disabilities in literature. 3. People with mental disabilities—Fiction.
4. Gifted persons—Fiction. 5. Brain—Surgery—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3561. E769F56 2004b
813'. 54—dc22 2004011445
Text set in AGaramond
Designed by Cathy Riggs
Printed in the United States of America
First Harvest edition 2004
A C E G I K J H F D B
v2. 0514
Contents
PART ONE THE MAZE OF TIME
1 My Writing Cellar [>]
2 The White Mouse [>]
3 Second Acting [>]
4 Breaking Dishes [>]
5 I Become Ship's Doctor [>]
PART TWO FROM SHIP TO SHRINK
6 Inkblots [>]
7 The Boy on Book Mountain [>]
8 Silence of the Psychoanalysts [>]
9 First Published Stories [>]
10 Editing Pulps and Writing Comic Books [>]
PART THREE MIND OVER MATTER
11 Looking for Charlie [>]
12 Charlie Finds Me [>]
13 Getting There [>]
14 Rejection and Acceptance [>]
PART FOUR THE ALCHEMY OF WRITING
15 Transformations: From Story to Teleplay to Novel [>]
16 Rejected Again [>]
17 Of Love and Endings [>]
18 We Find a Home [>]
PART FIVE POST-PUBLICATION BLUES
19 "Don't Hide Your Light Under a Bushel" [>]
20 When Are Writers Like Saints? [>]
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22 Broadway Bound [>]
23 And Then What Happened? [>]
Afterword: My "What Would Happen If... ?" Is Happening [>]
Acknowledgments [>]
FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON
Complete original novelette version [>]
Part One
The Maze of Time