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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

photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without

permission in writing from the publisher.

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

For my wife Aurea,

who tended the dream garden

so "Flowers" could grow.

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? [>]

21 Charly Goes Hollywood [>]

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