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Ken Elton Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American novelist, essayist and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s.
Jun 28, 2024 · Ken Kesey (born September 17, 1935, La Junta, Colorado, U.S.—died November 10, 2001, Eugene, Oregon) was an American writer who was a hero of the countercultural revolution and the hippie movement of the 1960s.
Nov 10, 2001 · Ken Kesey was American writer, who gained world fame with his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962, filmed 1975). In the 1960s, Kesey became a counterculture hero and a guru of psychedelic drugs with Timothy Leary.
Mar 11, 2019 · Ken Kesey was an American writer who attained fame with his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He helped define the 1960s as both an innovative author and a flamboyant catalyst of the hippie movement. Fast Facts: Ken Kesey. Born: September 17, 1935, in La Junta, Colorado. Died: November 10, 2001 in Eugene, Oregon.
Nov 11, 2001 · Ken Kesey, the Pied Piper of the psychedelic era, who was best known as the author of the novel ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,'' died yesterday in a hospital in Eugene, Ore., said...
A farm boy from the Willamette Valley, Ken Kesey brought an earthy, independent spirit to the American literary scene and to his self-designated role as the young Turk of the 1960s counterculture. His literary reputation rests on two novels, both written before he was thirty.
Jun 6, 2004 · In 1964, Ken Kesey was working in a cabin in La Honda Creek, south of San Francisco. He and his wife, Faye, had moved there in 1963, after their house on Perry Lane, in Menlo Park, was torn...
Ken Kesey. Who Was Ken Kesey? Novelist. Explorer. Prankster. Artist. Entertainer. Athlete. Teacher. Father. And so much more. Ken, the creator of the Furthur bus, was so many things to so many people. His influence on literature, art, and culture in the 20th Century is rivaled by few others.
Nov 10, 2001 · Ken Elton Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American novelist, essayist and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s.
Dec 29, 2013 · While still in his 20s, Ken Kesey rocked the American literary world with two groundbreaking novels, 1962’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Sometimes a Great Notion” two years ...
