Ken Kesey





Ken Kesey

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born
in La Junta, Colorado, The United States
September 17, 1935

died
November 10, 2001

gender
male

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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 was born in La Junta, CO, and brought up in Eugene, OR. Kesey spent his early years hunting, fishing, swimming; he learned to box and wrestle, and he was a star football player. He studied at the University of Oregon, where he acted in college plays. On graduating he won a scholarship to Stanford University. Kesey soon dropped out, joined the counterculture movement, and began experimenting with drugs. In 1956 he married his school s...more


Average rating: 4.15 · 258,961 ratings · 4,669 reviews · 30 distinct works · Similar authors
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The Further Inquiry
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3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions
Kesey's Garage Sale
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions
Kesey's Jail Journal
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3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2003
More books by Ken Kesey…
“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.”
Ken Kesey, Kesey's Garage Sale

“All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.”
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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