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Nov 11, 2001 · Ken Kesey, the Pied Piper of the psychedelic era, who was best known as the author of the novel ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,'' died yesterday in a hospital in Eugene, Ore., said his...
Kesey's role as a medical guinea pig, as well as his stint working at the Veterans' Administration hospital, inspired One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel by Ken Kesey published in 1962. Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative serves as a study of institutional processes and the human mind, including a critique of psychiatry [3] and a tribute to individualistic principles.
- Ken Kesey, John Clark Pratt
- 1962
Feb 1, 2012 · The classic American novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has hit the half-century mark. It made its author, Ken Kesey, a literary celebrity — and helped alter perceptions of mental...
Sep 16, 2020 · The only death scenes in the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest film are saved for the end, when Billy dies by suicide and Chief mercy kills McMurphy after his lobotomy. The book,...
Jul 27, 2023 · Bo Goldman, who won screenwriting Oscars for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Melvin and Howard, has passed away.
Ken Kesey was American writer, who gained world fame with his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962, filmed 1975). In the 1960s, Kesey became a counterculture hero and a guru of psychedelic drugs with Timothy Leary.
