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American writer and countercultural figure (1935–2001)
Kenneth Elton Kesey (/ˈkiːzi/; September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure. He considered himself
Ken_Kesey
2011 American documentary film
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place, is a 2011 American documentary film directed by Alison Ellwood and Alex Gibney, about Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady
Magic_Trip
American novelist (born 1936)
Prankster leader, Ken Kesey, wrote the book Last Go Round. Babbs is best known for his participation in the Acid Tests and on the bus Furthur. Ken Babbs was born
Ken_Babbs
Followers of Ken Kesey
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
Merry_Pranksters
1964 novel by Ken Kesey
author Ken Kesey, published in 1964. While One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) is more famous, many critics consider Sometimes a Great Notion Kesey's magnum
Sometimes_a_Great_Notion
Ken Kesey's Merry Band of Pranksters' 1960s hippie-bus
Furthur is a 1939 International Harvester school bus purchased by author Ken Kesey in 1964 to carry his "Merry Band of Pranksters" cross-country, filming
Furthur_(bus)
Cassady and Charles Plymell. Around that time, Ginsberg connected with Ken Kesey, who was participating in CIA sponsored LSD trials, at the Menlo Park
History of the hippie movement
History_of_the_hippie_movement
producers, Tim Scully and Nicholas Sand. Ken Kesey was born in 1935 in La Junta, Colorado to dairy farmers Frederick A. Kesey and Ginevra Smith. In 1946, the family
History_of_LSD
American food businessman (1938–2025)
a cultural revolution" in cultured food. In summer 1964, Kesey joined his brother Ken Kesey, and a troop of cohorts known as the Merry Pranksters, on
Chuck_Kesey
1968 book by Tom Wolfe
literary style. The book presents a firsthand account of the experiences of Ken Kesey and a group of psychedelic enthusiasts, known as the Merry Pranksters
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The_Electric_Kool-Aid_Acid_Test
LSD experiments/parties in the 1960s
The Acid Tests were a series of parties held by author Ken Kesey primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area during the mid-1960s, centered on the use of
Acid_Tests
Main antagonist of Ken Kesey's 1962 novel ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest''
main antagonist of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, first featured in Ken Kesey's 1962 novel as well as the 1975 film adaptation. A coldhearted, abusive
Nurse_Ratched
1975 American drama film
directed by Miloš Forman, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey. The film stars Jack Nicholson as a new patient at a mental institution
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)
One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo's_Nest_(film)
American novelist (1936–2021)
Malcolm Cowley, alongside other aspiring writers, including Wendell Berry, Ken Kesey, Peter S. Beagle and Gurney Norman. His debut novel, Horseman, Pass By
Larry_McMurtry
Anti-establishment cultural phenomenon
LSD outside of the medical world was hastened when individuals such as Ken Kesey participated in drug trials and liked what they saw. Tom Wolfe wrote a
Counterculture_of_the_1960s
Collaborative novel by Ken Kesey and creative writing class
Caverns is a 1989 novel written collaboratively as an experiment by Ken Kesey and a creative writing class that he taught at the University of Oregon
Caverns_(novel)
CIA program involving illegal experimentation on human test subjects (1953–1972)
psychology graduate student Vik Lovell, an acquaintance of Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, volunteered to take part in what turned out to be a CIA-financed study
MKUltra
1971 film by Paul Newman
screenplay by John Gay is based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey, the first of his books to be adapted for the screen. Filmed in western
Sometimes a Great Notion (film)
Sometimes_a_Great_Notion_(film)
1962 novel by Ken Kesey
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
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (novel)
One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo's_Nest_(novel)
1986 Indian film
Cuckoo's Nest which was an adaptation of the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey. The film features songs composed by Raghu Kumar and C. Rajamani, and
Thalavattam
1999 play by Ken Kesey
Reality in Three Quarters Plus Overtime if Necessary, is a 1994 play by Ken Kesey, loosely based on L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of
Twister_(play)
Play by Dale Wasserman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1963) is a play based on Ken Kesey's 1962 novel. The play had its Broadway debut in 1963 with an adaptation by Dale Wasserman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (play)
One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo's_Nest_(play)
Protagonist in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Patrick "Mac" McMurphy (also known as R.P. McMurphy) is the protagonist of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962). He appears in the stage
Randle_McMurphy
American writer (1926–1968)
first met author Ken Kesey during the summer of 1962; he eventually became one of the Merry Pranksters, a group that formed around Kesey in 1964, who were
Neal_Cassady
1973 collection of essays by Ken Kesey
Kesey's Garage Sale is a collection of essays and other writings by Ken Kesey, published in 1973. The book features the play "Over the Border" which is
Kesey's_Garage_Sale
Merry Prankster and former wife of Jerry Garcia (born 1946)
analyzing." In early 1964, she met Neal Cassady, who introduced her to Ken Kesey and his friends, one of whom gave her the name "Mountain Girl" because
Carolyn_Garcia
American actor
2005 Bettie Page biopic The Notorious Bettie Page, and as famous author Ken Kesey in a 2007 Neal Cassady biopic. Bauer played a small role in the 2005 Jim
Chris_Bauer
1992 novel by Ken Kesey
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
Sailor_Song_(novel)
American writer
Story Prize, and the novel We Were the Universe (2024), which won the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction at the Oregon Book Awards and was ranked number two
Kimberly_King_Parsons
American journalist (1939 – 2021 )
core member of the Merry Pranksters, a group loosely led by novelist Ken Kesey. Quarnstrom grew up in Longview, Washington, and the Chicago suburb of
Lee_Quarnstrom
American author and journalist (1930–2018)
best-selling books as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (an account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters) and two collections of articles and essays,
Tom_Wolfe
American actor (1933–2016)
patient Billy Bibbit in the original 1963–64 Broadway adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest opposite star Kirk Douglas.[citation
Gene_Wilder
American writer, teacher and editor
Review, which later became 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts. She studied under Ken Kesey at the University of Oregon and earned her Ph.D. in English literature
Lidia_Yuknavitch
2025 film by Kristen Stewart
to study under Ken Kesey, writing a collaborative novel with the other students in the class. Lidia develops a strong bond with Kesey, who connects with
The_Chronology_of_Water
1986 book by Ken Kesey
collection of works by Ken Kesey. The book includes nonfiction and fiction short stories as well as some of Kesey's essays. Kesey explained why the collection
Demon_Box_(book)
American rock band (1965–1995)
Festival, a three-day psychedelic rock weekend party and event produced by Ken Kesey, Stewart Brand, and Ramon Sender, that, in conjunction with the Merry
Grateful_Dead
1967 social phenomenon in San Francisco
performances by bands like the Grateful Dead, Odetta and Captain Beefheart. Ken Kesey and Timothy Leary were also reportedly in attendance. As Denver native
Summer_of_Love
Name list
player Ken Kesey (1935–2001), American novelist, author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kirby, Canadian-born actor and screenwriter Ken Klippenstein
Ken_(given_name)
American writer
of subjects from near-death experiences to the biographies of authors Ken Kesey and Hunter S. Thompson. Perry is also a documentary filmmaker and owns
Paul_Perry_(author)
American journalist (born 1949)
produced PBS biographies of writers Dashiell Hammett, Beryl Markham, Ken Kesey, Carlos Fuentes, Maxine Hong Kingston and John Dos Passos. He was co-creator
Stephen_Talbot
Bronze sculpture by Pete Helzer in Eugene, Oregon, U.S.
Storyteller, also known as the Ken Kesey Memorial, is an outdoor bronze sculpture by Pete Helzer, installed at Kesey Square (located at Broadway and
The_Storyteller_(sculpture)
City in Oregon, United States
downsized. Springfield has now developed a more diversified economy. Ken Kesey's brother Chuck, and Chuck's wife Sue, started the Springfield Creamery
Springfield,_Oregon
Public square in Eugene, Oregon, U.S.
square was renamed to commemorate novelist and countercultural figure Ken Kesey in October 2017. Oregon portal The Storyteller (sculpture) Hill, Christian
Kesey_Square
1960s subculture
in the United States. During the late 1950s and early 1960s, novelist Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters lived communally first in Oregon and after the
Hippie
1967 British TV film starring The Beatles
band as well as road manager Mal Evans). The premise was inspired by Ken Kesey's Furthur adventures with the Merry Pranksters and the then-popular coach
Magical_Mystery_Tour_(film)
2020 American drama streaming television series
to Miloš Forman's 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (based on Ken Kesey's 1962 novel of the same title), it depicts the life of Mildred Ratched
Ratched_(TV_series)
Media stereotype based on characteristics of the Beat Generation
influenced by or associated with beatniks include The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, and Andy Warhol. Beatniks have been portrayed or parodied
Beatnik
'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' by Dale Wasserman based on a novel by Ken Kesey. Dublin: Elo Press Ltd., printer. "The Death of Humpty Dumpty". PlayographyIreland
Liam_Neeson_filmography
Art form on the medium of LSD blotter paper
movement, such as Timothy Leary, Albert Hofmann, and the Furthur bus used by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Early blotter art often employed Grateful Dead
Blotter_art
1969 music festival in northern California
Political scientist and cultural critic James Miller believes that since Ken Kesey had invited the Hells Angels to one of his outdoor Acid Tests, the hippies
Altamont_Free_Concert
American counterculture publication
Earth Catalog Paul Krassner and Ken Kesey 132 $1 R. Crumb cover; "The Dream is Over" by J. Marks, "The Bible" by Ken Kesey. No catalog items, only essays
Whole_Earth_Catalog
1960s subculture related to the use of psychedelics
1964, the Merry Pranksters, a loose group that developed around novelist Ken Kesey, sponsored the Acid Tests, a series of events based around the taking
Psychedelia
Literary movement
and larger counterculture movements. Neal Cassady, as the driver for Ken Kesey's bus Furthur, was the primary bridge between these two generations. Ginsberg's
Beat_Generation
American psychologist (1920–1996)
Leary had the flu and did not play host. After a private meeting with Kesey and Ken Babbs in his room, he promised to remain an ally in the years ahead
Timothy_Leary
2016 documentary film
Colby Rex O'Neill and Matt Pidutti.A The film covers the journey of Ken Kesey's bus Furthur, back on the road in 2014 for a 75-day trip covering 15,000
Going_Furthur
American folk song first recorded in 1933
river and drown", which was the inspiration for the title of the 1964 Ken Kesey novel Sometimes a Great Notion and a song of the same name from John Mellencamp's
Goodnight,_Irene
Literary award for writers from Oregon, United States
Pomeroy 1995: Damon Knight 1996: Eloise McGraw 1998: Priscilla Knuth 1999: Ken Kesey 2003: George Hitchcock 2006: Ursula K. Le Guin 2008: Barry Lopez 2014:
Oregon_Book_Award
American publishing company
Jan Karon Ezra Jack Keats Garrison Keillor William Kennedy Jack Kerouac Ken Kesey Sue Monk Kidd Stephen King Jamil Jan Kochai D. H. Lawrence Tobsha Learner
Viking_Press
American guitarist and singer (1942–1995)
party in Menlo Park's bohemian Perry Lane neighborhood (where author Ken Kesey lived). Lesh would later write in his autobiography that Garcia reminded
Jerry_Garcia
Topics referred to by the same term
refer to: Demon Box (album), by Motorpsycho, 1993 Demon Box (book), by Ken Kesey, 1986 This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title
Demon_Box
American record producer
composed and performed the score for the 2011 film Magic Trip, about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. He also scored the Alex Gibney film, The Armstrong
David_Kahne
American actor and comedian (born 1954)
& Nate Dan Gibson 2024 Fight Another Day Duke 2025 The Chronology of Water Ken Kesey Song Sung Blue Tom D'Amato TBA Green Bank † TBA Post-production
Jim_Belushi
Japanese writer and radio personality
2005. After being influenced by The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and Ken Kesey's Further bus trip in the mid 60s, Kun purchased a double-decker bus from
Kunichi_Nomura
American entertainer and peace activist (born 1936)
morning of the 20th Anniversary of the Woodstock Festival, he and author Ken Kesey were interviewed on Good Morning America, live from the Bethel concert
Wavy_Gravy
Genre of literature
Haley The Silmarillion, by J. R. R. Tolkien Sometimes a Great Notion, by Ken Kesey Strangers and Brothers, by C. P. Snow The Thibaults, by Roger Martin du
Family_saga
11th episode of the 4th season of Battlestar Galactica
episode title is a reference to the novel of the same name, written by Ken Kesey. The episode was also the last to be written before the 2007–2008 Writers
Sometimes a Great Notion (Battlestar Galactica)
Sometimes_a_Great_Notion_(Battlestar_Galactica)
Polish theatre and film actor
Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey and Danton in Danton's Death by Georg Büchner. In 1981 he won the award
Roman_Wilhelmi
English film director
(1987) Judgment in Berlin (1988) (writer - uncredited) A Conversation with Ken Kesey (1995) American Perfekt (1997) Nasty (2018) (short) Rock and Roll with
Paul_Chart
American sound engineer and chemist (1935–2011)
needed] In September 1965, Stanley became the primary LSD supplier to Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. By this time, Sandoz LSD sold under the trade-name
Owsley_Stanley
American story writer and poet (1938–1988)
behest of provost James B. Hall, an Iowa alumnus and early mentor to Ken Kesey at the University of Oregon, commuting from his new home in Sunnyvale
Raymond_Carver
American cartoonist (1934–2003)
Through the musicians, Paul met Neal Cassady and then Ken Kesey. He gave up computing to join Kesey and the Pranksters, living in a tree house in La Honda
Paul_Foster_(cartoonist)
Census-designated place in California, United States
industry and the Old Store at La Honda was one of the earliest buildings. Ken Kesey, the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (pages of which were written
La_Honda,_California
American writer (born 1971)
short stories, entitled Livability, which won the Oregon Book Award's Ken Kesey Award for Fiction in 2009. The collection was also a Barnes & Noble "Discover
Jonathan_Raymond
2005 Indian film by Priyadarshan
inspired by the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest an adaptation of Ken Kesey's 1962 novel of the same name. The film stars Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor
Kyon_Ki
Research on altered states of consciousness
and, amongst other techniques, he used isolation tanks in his research. Ken Kesey is an author well-known for accounts of his experimentation with psychedelic
Psychonautics
Music genre
Stanley III and Ken Kesey (along with his followers known as the Merry Pranksters) helped thousands of people take uncontrolled trips at Kesey's Acid Tests
Psychedelic_rock
Flavored drink mix
spiked with LSD, before being brainwashed and psychologically tortured. Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters frequently held and advertised parties they called
Kool-Aid
2003 live album by Grateful Dead
including guitarist John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service and Ken Kesey as well as actor Dan Aykroyd who provided the midnight countdown. It was
The_Closing_of_Winterland
Survey on books carried out by the BBC in the United Kingdom in 2003
The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Kim by Rudyard Kipling Cross Stitch
The_Big_Read
American writer (1937–2015)
Although he associated with the influential post-Beat Generation writer Ken Kesey and other Merry Pranksters, he was not a passenger on the famous 1964
Robert_Stone_(novelist)
There Was A War by John Steinbeck One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Only When I Larf by Len Deighton The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George
List_of_Penguin_Classics
American rock band (2009–2014)
Benevento/Russo Duo on drums. Named after the famous touring bus used by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters in the 1960s, Furthur was an improvisational
Furthur_(band)
2003 Canadian film
Documentary. The film features cameos by Dave Matthews, Natalie Merchant, Ken Kesey, Bob Weir (of the Grateful Dead), Michael Franti (of Spearhead), Anthony
Go_Further
Latin proverb
simply restating the proverb in different words. The American writer Ken Kesey, who had participated in Air Force mental health studies using LSD, derided
A rolling stone gathers no moss
A_rolling_stone_gathers_no_moss
Subgenre of psychedelic rock music
on December 4, 1965, the date of the second Acid Test held by author Ken Kesey. Their stage performance involved the use of strobe lights to reproduce
Acid_rock
American satirical magazine
The magazine also published political commentary from Norman Mailer, Ken Kesey and Joseph Heller. The first hoax directed toward mainstream culture involved
The_Realist
American singer (born 1972)
first name, Sunshine, she is not to be confused with Sunshine Kesey, daughter of Ken Kesey and Carolyn Adams (aka Mountain Girl or MG), Jerry Garcia's second
Sunshine_Becker
Technique of resist dyeing
taken during the 1964 cross-country bus journey of countercultural icon Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, shows the travelers developing a form of tie-dye
Tie-dye
American basketball player and sportscaster (1952–2024)
considered himself a fan and friend of the writer Ken Kesey. In 2015, he made a visit to the Ken Kesey Collection while on a stop at the University of Oregon
Bill_Walton
American comedian and recording artist (1906–1960)
Lenny Bruce, Wavy Gravy, Del Close, and, even after Buckley's death, Ken Kesey, George Harrison, Tom Waits, Frank Zappa, Robin Williams, and Jimmy Buffett
Lord_Buckley
Film by Gus Van Sant
shot in sequence. The film is dedicated to the memory of American writer Ken Kesey. The film received generally mixed critical reviews. On the review aggregator
Gerry_(2002_film)
Retreat center in Big Sur, California, US
Huang James Hillman Albert Hofmann Aldous Huxley Sam Keen Stanley Keleman Ken Kesey Paul Krassner R. D. Laing George Leonard Dennis Lewis John C. Lilly Amory
Esalen_Institute
1985 single by Phil Collins
refer to a patient in a mental institution and it is influenced by the Ken Kesey novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962). "Take Me Home" became Collins's
Take Me Home (Phil Collins song)
Take_Me_Home_(Phil_Collins_song)
include Margaret Atwood, Raymond Carver, Alice Walker, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ken Kesey, Carolyn Forché, Belle Randall, Barry Lopez, Tom Robbins, Sam Hamill,
Port Townsend Writers' Conference
Port_Townsend_Writers'_Conference
Addiction by Luke Davies Candy, in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Dora Flood, in Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Chandramukhi, in Devdas by
List of prostitutes and courtesans
List_of_prostitutes_and_courtesans
1974 novel by Robert Stone
from his experiences among the Merry Prankster milieu led by novelist Ken Kesey, with whom Stone became acquainted while he was a student in the graduate
Dog_Soldiers_(novel)
American late-night talk show
Carson, notable guests of Tomorrow throughout its eight-year run included Ken Kesey, Charles Manson, Spiro Agnew, Harlan Ellison, Alfred Hitchcock, Jimmy
The_Tomorrow_Show
1994 novel by Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs
Last Go Round is a 1994 novel written by Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs. It was Kesey's last novel and is about the famous "Last Go Round" that took place at
Last_Go_Round
American film director and producer (born 1953)
9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010; documentary) Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place (2011; documentary) Catching Hell (2011; ESPN
Alex_Gibney
American sound synthesist (1937–2016)
designed by Don Buchla Sound System from the bus "Further", designed for Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters Analog sequencers (bottom) on Buchla 100 (1963/1966)
Don_Buchla
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