What time period is the book Flowers for Algernon set in?

time and place written · Original short story written in 1959, in New York City; expanded novel version written from 1962 to 1965 in New York and Ohio


setting (time) · There are no direct references to time period in the novel, but we can assume the events take place around the time the novel was written, the mid-1960s.


setting (place) · New York City; one chapter takes place in Chicago





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What time period is the book Flowers for Algernon set in?
Late fifties, early sixties.
Reply:The book really doesn't have a time period. It was written in 1959 though.





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Reply:I think it was set in the sixties.