β Scribed by Keyes, Daniel
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Author David Keyes created an unlikely duo that has captured the hearts and minds of readers around the world. It is the classic story--part of which has now come true--of an experiment to increase intelligence, in which researchers first transform a laboratory mouse named Algernon into a genius. Charlie Gordon, who tells them, "I want to be smart," eagerly volunteers to follow in Algernon's four-legged footsteps through the maze of acquiring knowledge and learning about life.;Maze of time: My writing cellar -- White mouse -- Second acting -- Breaking dishes -- I become ships doctor -- From ship to shrink: Inkblots -- Boy on book mountain -- Silence of the psychoanalysts -- First published stories -- Editing pulps and writing comic books -- Mind over matter: Looking for Charlie -- Charlie finds me -- Getting there -- Rejection and acceptance -- Alchemy of writing: Transformations; form story to teleplay to novel -- Rejected again -- Of love and endings -- We find a home -- Post-publication blues: "Don't hide your light under a bushel" -- When are writers like saints? -- "CHARLY" goes Hollywood -- Broadway bound -- And then what happened?
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