Kesey, Ken
Kesey, Ken( 1935–2001),born in Colorado, graduated from the University of Oregon, later studied at Stanford, and once worked as a ward attendant in a mental hospital which provided background for his comic macabre novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), whose tone also animates his second novel, Sometimes a Great Notion (1964), about a feud between two brothers in an Oregon lumber town. Kesey's Garage Sale (1973) collects diverse writings, mainly autobiographical, while Demon Box (1986) collects essays, poems, and stories. His loose life-style during the '60s, touring around in a bus with his so-called Merry Pranksters, was the subject of an essay by Tom Wolfe in his Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. The Further Inquiry (1990) is Kesey's own account of the Merry Pranksters period.
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