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Ken Elton Kesey (/ ˈ k iː z iː /; September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American novelist, essayist and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s.
Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930 – May 14, 2018) [a] was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques.
The Merry Pranksters were followers of American author Ken Kesey.Kesey and the Merry Pranksters lived communally at Kesey's homes in California and Oregon, and are noted for the sociological significance of a lengthy road trip they took in the summer of 1964, traveling across the United States in a psychedelic painted school bus called Furthur, organizing parties, and giving out LSD. [1]
Paul M. Foster (November 7, 1934 – June 23, 2003) [1] was a Merry Prankster best known for illustrating the book Kesey's Garage Sale. He was a founding member of Wavy Gravy's Hog Farm commune. Foster was a mathematical genius and became a computer programmer "in the days of wooden transistors" as he would say.
In 1965, police invaded the La Honda home, arresting 14 people on marijuana charges, including Lee Quarnstrom, Ken Kesey, and Neal Cassady. Other friends and associates of Quarnstrom included spiritual leader Ram Dass , The Realist founder Paul Krassner , counterculture activist Wavy Gravy , and Jerry Garcia 's former wife, Carolyn Garcia (then ...
Ken Kesey (1935–2001), novelist, short story writer, playwright, and author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which he finished writing while living in a cottage in Palo Alto [65] Marty Klein (born 1950), sex therapist, author, educator, and public policy analyst; Michael Lederer, author
Ken Kesey [citation needed] Lum Truth and Bright Water: The cousin of Tecumseh and the son of tribal leader Franklin. Thomas King [citation needed] Tecumseh A 15-year-old Blackfoot boy of the Truth town in rural Montana and the first person narrator of the story; the son of Helen and Elvin and the nephew of Auntie Cassie.
Sailor Song is a 1992 novel written by Ken Kesey.The only work of long fiction solely written by Kesey after Sometimes a Great Notion (1964), Sailor Song depicts the lives of the residents of Kuinak, a small town in Alaska, thirty years in the future – the 2020s.