Ken Kesey
12 books
Ken Kesey, born in 1935 and died in 2001, was an American novelist, essayist and countercultural figure who described himself as the link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. Kesey grew up in Springfield, Oregon and graduated from the University of Oregon in 1957; he started One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, his psychiatric-hospital novel, in 1960 after a creative writing fellowship at Stanford, and its 1962 publication was an immediate commercial and critical success. Twelve catalogued titles follow, among them Sometimes A Great Notion (1964), Demon Box (1986) and Sailor Song (1992).


