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Bookmark or Share- Ken Kesey - WikipediaKen 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. Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado, and grew up in Springfield, Oregon, graduating from the University of Oregon in 1957
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey | GoodreadsKen Kesey. 4.20. 733,859 ratings16,078 reviews. Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451163967. Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy.
- Ken Kesey (1935-2001) - The Oregon EncyclopediaKen 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.
- Ken Kesey (Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) - GoodreadsKen 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.
- Ken Kesey Biography, Works, and Quotes | SparkNotesNovels. Essay Collections. 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.
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