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'''Ken Kesey''' (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American writer best known for ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]''.
'''Ken Kesey''' (1935–2001) was an American writer best known for ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]''.<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall: New York, 1991.</ref>
According to [[Tom Wolfe]]'s ''[[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]'', Kesey got the idea for the Chief Bromden character while under the influence of [[LSD]]. Kesey also worked in a mental hospital and secretly underwent [[electric shock treatment]] in order to better understand his characters.
==Life and Works==
Kesey was born September 17, 1935.<ref>http://www.biography.com/people/ken-kesey-9363911</ref> He came from a Baptist family that moved frequently and enjoyed fishing, hunting, boxing, hypotism, and ventriloquism as a child.<ref>http://www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-Ka-M/Kesey-Ken.html</ref>
He enrolled in Stanford University's creative writing class and began writing a novel about the growing Beat scene in [[California]].<ref>http://www.pbs.org/opb/thesixties/topics/culture/newsmakers_3.html</ref> According to [[Tom Wolfe]]'s ''[[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]'', Kesey got the idea for the Chief Bromden character while under the influence of [[LSD]]. Kesey also worked in a mental hospital and secretly underwent [[electric shock treatment]] in order to better understand the characters of what he released in 1962 as ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest''.<ref>https://explore.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/show/sixties/walkthrough/kenkesey</ref> After his success, he drove his family and others around the country in a bus to experiment with LSD, a group that became called the Merry Pranksters and led to the birth of several unloved children.<ref>http://literary-destinations.com/authors/ken-kesey/biography</ref> He continued to write about his "psychedelic" lifestyle in ''Kesey's Garage Sale'' (1973), ''Demon Box'' (1986), and ''The Further Inquiry'' (1990), and got the voyage made into a movie, ''Magic Trip''.<ref>"Kesey, Ken." ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>
His "Merry Prankster" life made him the irresponsible father of four children by two single woman, after which he spent time and jail, got a liver tumor and died of surgical complications on November 10, 2001.<ref>http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/ken-kesey-3369.php</ref>
==See Also==
*[[Liberal values]]
*[[Jack Kerouac]]
*[[Allen Ginsberg]]
==References==
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