Ken Kesey

Born: 17 September 1935 in La Junta, Colorado, USA. Died: 10 November 2001 in Eugene, Oregon, USA. American writer, most famous for his greatest works One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1962) and Sometimes A Great Notion (1964). He initiated the collective The Merry Pranksters in the early sixties. As a cultural and literary figure, he stands at the midpoint between the Beatniks of the 1950's and the Hippies of the 1960's, freely admitting to borrowing from Jack Kerouac quite consciously.