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American writer and countercultural figure (–)

Ken Elton Kesey (; September 17, &#;– November 10, ) was an American novelist, essayist and countercultural figure.

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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