Ken Kesey Writer

Kenneth Elton "Ken" Kesey (/ˈkiːziː/; September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American author, best known for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) and as a countercultural figure who considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. "I was too young to be a beatnik, and too old to be a hippie," Kesey said in a 1999 interview with Robert K. Elder.

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Birth date	September 17, 1935
Birth name	Kenneth Elton Kesey
Birth place	La Junta Colorado
Date of death	November 10, 2001
Place of death	Eugene Oregon , Pleasant Hill Oregon

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genre	Postmodernism Beat Generation
influenced	Hunter S. Thompson Lester Bangs Chuck Palahniuk Paul McCartney Jerry Garcia Tom Wolfe
influenced by	Charles Dickens Ernest Hemingway Friedrich Nietzsche Fyodor Dostoyevsky Jack Kerouac Sigmund Freud William Faulkner William S. Burroughs William Shakespeare Mark Twain
movement	Merry Pranksters
notable work	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel) Sometimes a Great Notion