Décès de Daniel Keyes

[Erwann]

Daniel Keyes, l'auteur de Des fleurs pour Algernon et de Les 1001 vies de Billy Milligan, est décédé ce samedi 15 juin, à l'âge de 86 ans.
Source.

[ubikD]

Hélas.
Des Fleurs pour Algernon reste un de mes romans préférés.

[Space opera]

Hélas.
Des Fleurs pour Algernon reste un de mes romans préférés.

Grand classique de la SF. Faudrait que je le lise.

[Gromovar]

Confirmé nulle part. C'est étrange.

[Erwann]

Confirmé nulle part. C'est étrange.

Effectivement. S'il s'avère que c'est un canular, je suis vraiment désolé de l'avoir répercuté.

[JDB]

C'est David Langford qui a annoncé la nouvelle sur facebook, après avoir eu vent d'une rumeur assez vague.
Voici le texte qu'il a relayé (émanant visiblement d'une personne demeurant dans la même ville que les enfants de Daniel Keyes):

It is with great sadness that I announce the passing today of Mr. Daniel Keyes, author of "Flowers for Algernon" and father of 2 dear hometown friends of mine. He died peacefully at home on Father's Day, with his daughters by his side.
Rest in peace, sir.

L'origine de l'info est la page facebook d'une organisation politique, Democrats Organizing for America, localisée à Estes Park, dans le Colorado.
Et, en effet, l'info ne figure pas encore sur le site "Ansible Links" de David Langford, et Locus n'en a pas encore parlé (mais Locus est beaucoup moins vif qu'il y a quelques années).
Wait and see...
JDB

[rmd]

Voilà :

http://www.locusmag.com/News/2014/06/da ... 1927-2014/

Author Daniel Keyes, 86, died June 15, 2014.

Keyes is best known for his classic SF story “Flowers for Algernon” (F&SF, 1959), the bestselling 1966 novel expansion, and the film version Charly (1968).

Keyes was born August 9, 1927 in New York. He worked variously as an editor, comics writer, fashion photographer, and teacher before joining the faculty of Ohio University in 1966, where he taught as a professor of English and creative writing, becoming professor emeritus in 2000. He married Aurea Georgina Vaquez in 1952, who predeceased him in 2013; they had two daughters.

Keyes began working in SF as an associate editor at Marvel Science Fiction in 1951, and his first SF story was “Precedent” there in 1952. Other novels include The Touch (1968; as The Contaminated Man, 1977), The Fifth Sally (1980), and The Asylum Prophecies (2009). He had other books published in Japan, including novel Until Death Do Us Part: The Sleeping Princess (1998), and wrote true crime volumes including Edgar Award winner The Minds of Billy Milligan (1982), sequel The Milligan Wars: A True-Story Sequel (1994 in Japan, forthcoming in the US), and Unveiling Claudia: A True Story of Serial Murder (1986). His memoir Algernon, Charlie and I: A Writer’s Journey (2000) discusses the experience of writing the story and its impact on his life. Keyes was honored as a SFWA Author Emeritus in 2000.

Keyes lived in south Florida, and is survived by his daughters.

- See more at: http://www.locusmag.com/News/2014/06/da ... RzJa4.dpuf

[scifictif]

Finalement, tant que ce n'est pas officialisé, on n'est pas vraiment mort.
La réalité, c'est plus ce que c'était.

[Olivier Girard]

LivresHebdo y va de sa nécro...