Ken Kesey (Novelist) - Age, Birthday, Bio, Facts, Family, Net Worth, Height & More

Kenneth Elton Kesey is an American novelist, essayist and counterculture. He considers himself a connection between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado and raised in Springfield, Oregon, graduating from the University of Oregon in 1957. He began writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1960 after completing a Graduate Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University. ; The novel was an immediate commercial and critical success when it was published two years later. During this time, Kesey joined government studies related to hallucinogenic drugs to supplement his income.

Born	Kenneth Elton Kesey, September 17, 1935, La Junta, Colorado, U.S.
Died	November 10, 2001, Eugene, Oregon, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Oregon
Genre	Postmodernism
Literary movement	Countercultural
Notable works	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Sometimes a Great Notion (1964)

Novelist Ken Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado, United States on September 17, 1935. He dies at the age of 66, on November 10, 2001.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion, and Demon Box are some of his most well-known works. He was a founding member of the Merry Pranksters, a psychedelic literary collaborative.

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Ken Kesey was born in the Zodiac sign Virgo (The Maiden), and 1935 is also the year of Pig (豬) in the Chinese Zodiac.

In high school and college in Oregon, he was a champion wrestler, and his Olympic hopes were only shattered by a major shoulder injury. Hypnotism and ventriloquism were two of his other childhood pastimes.

Twister: A Ritual Reality was a musical he composed and acted in.

He was born in Colorado to Frederick and Geneva Kesey, and when he was eleven years old, he moved to Oregon with his family. In 1956, he married Norma Faye Haxby. Jed and Zane were his sons, and Shannon and Sunshine were his daughters.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a film adaptation of Kesey's classic novel, earned actor ^{Movie Actor}Jack Nicholson an Academy Award nomination.

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