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Ken Elton Kesey [5] (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. Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado, and grew up in Springfield, Oregon, graduating from the University of Oregon in ...
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. Kesey was educated at the University of Oregon and Stanford University. At a Veterans Administration hospital in Menlo Park ...
Apr 2, 2014 · Ken Elton Kesey was born on September 17, 1935, in La Junta, Colorado. He was raised by his dairy farmer parents in rugged Springfield, Oregon, where he grew to be a star wrestler and football player.
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 10, 2001 · In 1956 he married h. 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. Kesey has been called the Pied Piper, who changed the beat generation into the hippie movement.
Nov 11, 2001 · Ken Elton Kesey was born on Sept. 17, 1935, in La Junta, Colo., the older of two sons born to the dairy farmers Fred A. and Geneva Smith Kesey.
Ken Kesey (1935-2001) 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.
