Noun
United States writer whose best-known novel was based on his experiences as an attendant in a mental hospital (1935-2001)
Source: WordNetAs I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey. Stephen Gaghan
According to Kesey, "Without Faye, I would have been swept overboard by notoriety and weird, dope-fueled ideas and flower-child girls with beamy eyes and bulbous breasts." citation Esquire Magazine (September 1992). Source: Internet
Cowley was succeeded the following quarter by the Irish short story specialist Frank O'Connor ; frequent spats between O'Connor and Kesey ultimately precipitated his departure from the class. Source: Internet
In addition to teaching at the University of Oregon—culminating in Caverns (1989), a collaborative novel written by Kesey and his graduate workshop students under the pseudonym of "O. Source: Internet
In an interview after arriving in New York, Kesey is quoted as saying, "The sense of communication in this country has damn near atrophied. Source: Internet
Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters also played a part in the role of "turning heads on". Source: Internet