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Ken Kesey
Life Time
17 September 1935 - 10 November 2001
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He was born in La Junta, Colorado, in the family of an oil mill owner. He graduated from the University of Oregon, then entered Stanford University, but dropped out and joined the counterculture movement. Together with Timothy Leary promoted drugs, in a psychiatric hospital in Menlo Park, he experimented on himself, taking LSD and other drugs, for which he received a scholarship from the hospital. In 1962 he published the novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (in 1975, a sensational film with
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He was born in La Junta, Colorado, in the family of an oil mill owner. He graduated from the University of Oregon, then entered Stanford University, but dropped out and joined the counterculture movement. Together with Timothy Leary promoted drugs, in a psychiatric hospital in Menlo Park, he experimented on himself, taking LSD and other drugs, for which he received a scholarship from the hospital. In 1962 he published the novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (in 1975, a sensational film with Jack Nicholson in the title role was staged on this novel). Published in 1964, the novel “Not a Bad Idea”, Kesey decided to “get off” with literature: he organized a jazz band, bought a bus and went on a trip to the United States and Mexico; was arrested for possession of marijuana, fled to Mexico, faked suicide, on his return to the United States spent five months in prison. In the early 70s he returned to writing. From the last works of Kesey can be distinguished novels “Song of the sailor” (1992) and “the Last circle” (1994).