Flowers For Algernon Setting

Flowers for Algernon was published in 1966, after a very successful short story, published in 1959. It is set in New York city in 1965 in the labs of Beekman college, where Charly Gordon studies the effects of a surgery designed to raise his I.Q. Although it was written 45 years ago, it has a modern feel as Daniel Keyes (the author) doesn't really discuss the technology available to Charly. The surgery was preformed after very promising results from a mouse named Algernon. Charly develops a close relationship with Algernon because of the connection they have from being the only two 'people' in the world to ever have the surgery with supposedly successful results.