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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.
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.
Ken Kesey Biography. Ken Kesey was born in 1935 in La Junta, Colorado and grew up in Oregon. After being elected the boy most likely to succeed by his high school class, Kesey enrolled in the University of Oregon, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1957.
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.
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, The Art of Fiction No. 136. Interviewed by Robert Faggen. Issue 130, Spring 1994. At the center of Kesey’s work are what he calls “little warriors” battling large forces. Over the years, some critics have praised his work for its maverick power and themes of defiance; others have questioned his wild and paranoid vision.
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...
Feb 1, 2012 · The classic American novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has hit the half-century mark. It made its author, Ken Kesey, a literary celebrity — and helped alter perceptions of mental...
