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	Merry Prankster History Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ken Kesey made his mark on 20th century American history in two significant ways: Firstly as the best selling author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) and Sometimes a Great Notion (1964), he garnered a deserved reputation as an important figure in American literature.
		Ken Elton Kesey was born in 1935 in La Junta, Colorado.
		Kesey and his wife, Faye, moved into a house on Perry Lane, the bohemian sector of Palo Alto that was home to some of the area's literary, intellectual and artistic set.
	www.pranksterweb.org /kkbio.htm (1560 words)

	Alternative sources of "the facts" about our War On Terrorism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kesey acted undaunted by the negative reaction to the novel's appearance, which was timed for the arrival of the Pranksters in New York.
		Ken Elton Kesey was born on Sept. 17, 1935, in La Junta, Colo., the older of two sons born to the dairy farmers Fred A. and Geneva Smith Kesey.
		Kesey and his brother were taught early to hunt, fish and swim, as well as to box, wrestle and shoot the rapids of the local rivers on inner- tube rafts.
	www.rainbowpuddle.com /keseynytobit.html (1901 words)

	Kesey Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ken was a great friend to my father, Neal Cassady, and almost a second father to me after Neal died in 1968 when I was 16 years old.
		Kesey was one of the kindest and wisest men I've ever known, and he was one of my biggest heroes and mentors starting soon after he met Neal in the early '60s, a feeling which continues in me to this day.
		Ken Kesey was a great teacher and a beautiful soul, and he will be missed by all that his magic touched.
	www.rainbowpuddle.com /cassady.html (575 words)

	KEN KESEY / 1935-2001 / Larger-than-life novelist, counterculture icon dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ken Kesey, whose exuberant novels "Sometimes a Great Notion" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" championed individualism under attack from the forces of conformity, died yesterday morning of complications from liver cancer at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene, Ore. He was 66.
		Ken Elton Kesey was born on Sept. 17, 1935, in La Junta, Colo., the younger of two sons.
		Kesey moved back to Oregon to research and write 1964's "Sometimes a Great Notion," the story of an outsized logging clan and their battles with labor and among themselves.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/11/11/MN106854.DTL&type=printable (892 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Ken Kesey
		Ken was one of the kindest and wisest men I've ever known, and he was one of my biggest heroes and mentors starting soon after he met Neal in the early '60s, a feeling that continues in me to this day.
		And again when Kesey and Ken Babbs bequeathed Neal's fl-and-white striped shirt to me that he had worn on the bus trip in 1964, this time during a show we did at The Fillmore in 1997 before bringing the bus to Cleveland, where it was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
		Ken called and asked if I would drive "Further" into Ohio, "because Neal can't make it this trip." Although veteran prankster driver and mechanic George Walker wound up at the wheel, Kesey's heart was in the right place.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/11.29.01/kesey-0148.html (552 words)

	Kesey's Words Resonate at the End of a Long Trip
		Inside, Ken Elton Kesey, the icon of the psychedelic era who died at 66, was honored on a stage bathed in green, yellow and pink neon.
		Kesey led for most of the last 30 years, in nearby Pleasant Hill, where he farmed, served on the school board, coached high-school wrestling and raised four children with Norma Faye, his wife and high school sweetheart.
		Kesey had plenty of critics over the years, from those who saw him as the bard of a self-indulgent, sexually irresponsible age or as the principal glorifier of a drug culture that damaged many young lives.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines01/1115-02.htm (1023 words)

	Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey at Kernville, Oregon
		Kesey the Storyteller to be Memorialized in Eugene
		Exactly two years to the day since the funeral service was held for renowned author, Ken Kesey, his likeness in bronze will be unveiled on Friday, November 14 in downtown Eugene.
		Kesey is best known for two novels, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes A Great Notion, both of which are routinely studied in classrooms across the country and are frequently to be found on favorite book lists.
	www.ocnsignal.com /kesey.htm (1097 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Kesey, Ken (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ken Elton Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado on 17 September 1935, to Fred and Geneva Kesey, who were committed Baptists and dairy farmers.
		Kesey, like so many, had been swept up in the enthusiasm for Kennedy's Presidency and for him Kennedy's death seemed also the death of hope, and to require an art form that could be as instantaneous as the changes the apocalypse was apparently bringing.
		Kesey sued for a more just proportion of the royalties and ultimately settled for 2.5% of the movie's net, which was expected to give him an eventual revenue of $750,000 to $900,000.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4941 (1829 words)

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		Kesey became in the 1960s a counterculture hero and a guru of psychedelic drugs with Timothy Leary.
		Kesey was barely mentioned during the award ceremonies, and he made known his unhappiness with the film.
		In 1965 Kesey was arrested for possession of marijuana.
	www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/kesey_ken.html (1036 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Ken Kesey
		Ken Kesey lived on a dairy farm in Oregon, but the Santa Clara Valley and its environs was his stage for four decades.
		It was a classic Kesey non sequitur in the theater of the absurd, and one that made perfect sense amid architecture every bit as repressed and artificially controlled as the social world he attacked in the 1960s through his novels, performance art and pioneering multimedia experiments.
		Kesey had always been a showman, but I knew at heart he was a serious writer.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/11.15.01/kesey-0146.html (1581 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ken Elton Kesey (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Ken Elton Kesey 1935–2001, American novelist and counterculture figure, b.
		While a student he volunteered for a hospital study of mind-altering drugs, substances that were to shape much of his life and work.
		He was also known as the leader of the Merry Pranksters, a group of travelers, stoked by LSD, who traversed the United States in a psychedelically decorated bus in 1964.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/KeseyKen.html (297 words)

	Ken Kesey
		Ken Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado, and brought up in Eugene, Oregon.
		Kesey spent his early years hunting, fishing, swimming; he learned to box and wrestle, and he was a star football player.
		Kesey died of complications after surgery for liver cancer on November 10, 2001 in Eugene, Oregon.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /kkesey.htm (1253 words)

	Stanford Magazine > January/February 2002 > Examined Life
		Kesey died on November 10 in Eugene, Ore., of complications after surgery for liver cancer.
		Kesey, who enrolled in Stanford’s creative writing program in 1958, wrote Cuckoo’s Nest while working as an aide in the psychiatric ward of the Menlo Park Veterans Administration Hospital.
		Kesey soon became a night aide on the psychiatric ward at the hospital.
	www.stanfordalumni.org /news/magazine/2002/janfeb/departments/examinedlife.html (830 words)

	The Full Moon Family's Tribute to Ken Kesey
		There were a handful of other weird synchronicities, such as sitting at a lunch table the day that the Ken Kesey press packet arrived and talking with the woman at Naropa who was in charge of publicity and having her let me photocopy the packets entire contents.
		I soon discovered that she had been Ken's elementary school teacher and one of the things she said was that Ken was a "rascal" but basically a good kid.
		Ken and I had a meeting planned to discuss a book project he was considering not too long after that, Ken was pretty interested in my past military experience in some US Army experiments and he had wanted to get together but right about that time, Ken's son was killed in a tragic accident.
	www.fullmoonfamily.com /kesey.html (3399 words)

	Ken - English dictionary
		The principal inventor of the Unix operating system and author of the B language, the predecessor of C. In the early days Ken used to hand-cut Unix distribution tapes, often with a note that read "Love, ken".
		Ken was first hired to work on the Multics project, which was a huge production with many people working on it.
		Ken spent one week each on the kernel, file system, etc., and finished UNIX in one month along with developing SPACEWAR or was it "Space Travel"?.
	www.online-dictionary.biz /english/vocabulary/reference/Ken.asp (289 words)

	Tarnished Galahad
		Kesey was portrayed by many as a misogynist and a racist, a reputation that he has still not fully lived down.
		Kesey's bold, self-reliant characters continue to examine social responsibility, and at the heart of the tale is Kesey's heavy dependence on moralizing.
		Kesey is careful to point out in his Introduction that he is not dealing with facts as they agree in a dusty old history book, because no two tellings of the tale agree.
	www.ulster.net /~shady/thesis.html (8732 words)

	Key-Z Productions Home Page
		Four decades ago, the late Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters rolled across the country as psychedelic shock troops in a brightly painted bus called Furthur.
		Zane Kesey allowed two days to extricate Furthur, but it was out of the swamp shortly after noon of the first day.
		But Kesey's daughter was OK with the plan, whatever it may be.
	www.key-z.com (1189 words)

	Ken Kesey (Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) Essay
		Ken Kesey's life events are more than just unusual and his achievements are nothing short of extraordinary.
		On September 17, 1935, Ken Elton Kesey was born to his parents Fred A. and Geneva Smith, whom at the time were dairy farmers in La Junta, Colorado (Tanner 237).
		Kesey's family were both farmers and ranchers (Tanner 237).
	www.bookrags.com /essays/story/2003/4/13/173635/005 (256 words)

	Kesey, Ken Elton - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Kesey, Ken Elton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He used his experience of working in a mental hospital as the basis for his best-selling first novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962; filmed 1975).
		Kesey's life as a hippie was described by Tom Wolfe in his Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Kesey%2c+Ken+Elton (174 words)

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	Kesey - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		Some 30 years ago, when the late Ken Kesey and R.D. Laing were writing their respective critiques of traditional...inmates lining up for the next available bed.
		Ken Kesey: Furthur Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion...Francisco in early December.
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	Kesey, Ken Elton -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		The novels and lifestyle of U.S. writer Ken Kesey were closely tied to the counterculture of the 1960s.
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	SpitFurther Jail Journal BookVenture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Raised in the middle of this beautiful valley, Ken Elton Kesey was the creative spark who inspired several generations with his thoughts, actions, and writing.
		Kesey claimed this was his greatest work of art.
		The Bus will embark today from the Kesey farm traveling cacophonously past fields of winter wheat and mowed hay, herds of red bull and hereford cattle, toward Eugene in search of Mighty Ducks and mighty fun.
	www.intrepidtrips.com /bookventure2_eugene.html (326 words)

	Ken Kesey -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		He attended Stanford University and later served as an experimental subject and aide in a hospital, an experience that led to his novel One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962; film, 1975), which in the U.S. became one of the most widely read books of the 1960s.
		It was followed by Sometimes a Great Notion (1964) and several works of nonfiction that detailed Kesey's transformation from novelist to guru of the hippie generation.
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	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9369086 (694 words)

	Kesey:One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
		Ken Kesey Interview Mary Jane Fenex and Matthew Rick Akashic Junction
		Kesey, Oregon are inseparable Bob Welch Columnist, The Register-Guard
		Tarnished Galahad The Prose and Pranks of Ken Kesey Matthew Rick
	www.trinity.wa.edu.au /plduffyrc/subjects/english/fiction/kesey.htm (215 words)

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	Ken Kesey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Kesey was a local treasure.(Commentary)(Author: You've never met anyone like the man who wrote "Sometimes a Great Notion.") : An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
		The contemporary American comic epic: The novels of Barth, Pynchon, Gaddis, and Kesey (Humor in life and letters)
		Literary Retreat.(Arts & Literature)(A reading project designed to bring the community together begins with a study of Ken Kesey's greatest novel) : An article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
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