Ken Kesey
Novelist, Author
1935 – 2001
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Who was Ken Kesey?
Kenneth Elton "Ken" Kesey was an American author, best known for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and as a countercultural figure who considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. "I was too young to be a beatnik, and too old to be a hippie," Kesey said in a 1999 interview with Robert K. Elder.
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- Born
- Sep 17, 1935
La Junta - Also known as
- Kenneth Elton Kesey
- Kenneth Elton "Ken" Kesey
- Parents
- Spouses
- Norma Faye Haxby
(1956/05/20 - 2001/11/10)
- Norma Faye Haxby
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Oregon
- Stanford University
- Springfield High School
- Died
- Nov 10, 2001
Eugene
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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