Daniel keyes author interview on npr

  • Daniel Keyes, the author of the high-school staple "Flowers for Algernon," died on Sunday, according to his publisher.
  • Excerpted from Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes.
  • “Part II is a story of me trying to dig out the truth behind the newspaper headlines,” he said in the Crime Times interview.

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    Daniel Keys Moran

    American novelist

    Not to be confused with Daniel Keyes.

    Daniel Keys Moran

    BornDaniel Keys Moran
    (1962-11-30) November 30, 1962 (age 62)
    Los Angeles, California, U.S.
    OccupationFiction writer, computer programmer
    Period1983–present (as writer)
    GenreScience fiction

    Daniel Keys Moran (born November 30, 1962), also known by his initials DKM, is an American computer programmer and science fiction writer.

    Biography

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    Moran was born in Los Angeles to Richard Joseph Moran and Marilynn Joyce Moran. He has three sisters, Kari Lynn Moran, Jodi Anne Moran and Kathleen Moran.[1]

    A native of Southern California, he formerly lived (with his former wife Holly Thomas Moran) in North Hollywood.[1] DKM, his third wife Amy Stout-Moran, and their sons Richard Moran and Connor Moran, along with Amy's two daughters and one son later lived in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.[2]

    In early 2005 Keys Moran lost v

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    How to move from languishing to flourishing

    Languishing. That feeling of a lack of motivation or direction. Most people feel a sense of languishing at some point in their lives.

    So how do we move from languishing to flourishing?

    Today, On Point: Sociologist Corey Keyes has spent his career trying to find the answer.

    Guests

    Corey Keyes, professor emeritus of sociology at Emory University. Author of "Languishing: How to feel alive again in a world that wears us down."

    Transcript

    Part I

    MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: This is On Point. I'm Meghna Chakrabarti. In or about 1863, Emily Dickinson penned one of her most challenging poems. It begins:

    "My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun –
    In Corners – till a Day
    The Owner passed – identified –
    And carried Me away – "

    A loaded gun. It's such a powerful image. But of what? A life unfulfilled unless triggered by another? A soul trapped in a corner, as she says, useful for nothing in and of itself? Four more stanzas pass, and Dickinson ends t

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    Daniel Keyes, OU Professor and Author of “Flowers for Algernon,” Dies at 86


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    Daniel Keyes, Professor of Creative Writing at Ohio University from 1966-90, passed away on June 15.

    Keyes arrived at Ellis Hall a year after his first novel—Flowers for Algernon—was published. His story of the mouse named Algernon, a man with an I.Q. of 68, and an experimental procedure to make them both geniuses became a popular staple often read in high school by students who filled his creative writing classes at Ohio University.

    Flowers for Algernon earned Keyes a Nebula Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America and a Hugo Award for the short story version.

    He followed with fiction novels such as The Touch and The Fifth Sally, and then he turned to creative non-fiction with crime stories based on Ohio.

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