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  1. Apr 2, 2014 · Ken Kesey. Novelist Ken Kesey wrote 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' and is credited with helping to usher in the era of psychedelic drugs in the 1960s. Updated: Aug 5, 2020. (1935-2001)

  2. 4 days ago · 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Mar 11, 2019 · Robert McNamara. Updated on March 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.

  5. 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. Kesey has been called the Pied Piper, who changed the beat generation into the hippie movement.

  6. 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 his wife,...

  7. www.imdb.com › name › nm0450181Ken Kesey - IMDb

    Actor. Director. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Play trailer 2:24. Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place (2011) 2 Videos. 4 Photos. Kesey burst into the literary scene with the "Cuckoo's Nest" in 1962. which he wrote from his experiences working at a veterans hospital. During this period, he volunteered for the testing on the drug LSD.

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