Biography of ken kesey
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Ken Kesey
American writer and countercultural figure (–)
Ken Elton Kesey (; September 17, &#;– November 10, ) was an American novelist, essayist and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the s and the hippies of the s.
Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado, and grew up in Springfield, Oregon, graduating from the University of Oregon in He began writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in after completing a graduate fellowship in creative writing at Stanford University; the novel was an immediate commercial and critical success when published two years later. During this period, Kesey was used by the CIA without his knowledge in the Project MKULTRA involving hallucinogenic drugs (including mescaline and LSD), which was done to try to make people insane to put them under the control of interrogators.[4][5]
After One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was published, Kesey moved to nearby La Honda, California, and beg
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A farm boy from the Willamette Valley, Ken efternamn brought an earthy, independent spirit to the American literary en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film and to his self-designated role as the ung Turk of the s counterculture. His literary reputation rests on two novels, both written before he was thirty. His fame (or notoriety) as a countercultural icon stems from his grupp of willful misfits, the Merry Pranksters, who openly used and advocated psychedelic drugs. Kesey’s antics made him an object of admiration and scorn, yet his willingness to push limits and redefine normal boundaries came with a serious sense of purpose.
Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado, on September 17, When he was eleven, his parents moved to the Springfield area to establish a dairy cooperative. In , he married Faye Haxby. They had three children and raised a daughter from his liaison with fellow Merry Prankster Carolyn Adams.
Kesey’s pugnacious personality was shaped during his years at Springfield High School and the University of Orego
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Ken Kesey, the older of two sons, was born on September 17, , in La Junta, Colorado. In the family moved to Springfield, Oregon, where Kesey spent several years on his family's farm. He was raised in a religious household where he developed a great appreciation for Christian fables and a Christian ethical system. During high school and later in college, Kesey was a champion wrestler, setting long-standing state records in Oregon. Voted "most likely to succeed" in high school, Kesey was an unlikely candidate to become one of the more controversial figures of his age and one of the leading figures of the counterculture.
After high school, Kesey eloped with Faye Haxby, his high school sweetheart, and they had three children together: Jed, Zane, and Shannon. Kesey attended the University of Oregon with a degree in Speech and Communications. He also received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to enroll in the Creative Writing program at Stanford. His classmates in the program inc