What would it be like to live a life were you’re constantly on drugs? In all of Ken Kesey’s novels we explore this different world through his personal experiences. His most known novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, shows us life inside of a mental hospital for a patient. ... Kesey takes us were no author has gone before, inside his life.
Ken Eugene Kesey was born on September 17, 1935 in La Junta, Colorado. In 1946 Kesey and his family moved to Springfield, Oregon, where he was raised on his family farm. ... Kesey was voted “most likely to succeed” by his classmates in high school. ... When Kesey went back to school he attended the University of Oregon with a degree in Speech and Communications. ... At the time Kesey worked as an orderly at the psychiatric ward of the local Veterans Administration hospital. When working he started to have hallucinations about an Indian sweeping the floors, this building the character ‘Chief Broom’ in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Kesey published the novel in 1962, it was an immediate success.
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