• Guide Notes:

    Ken Kesey was an American author and counter-culture folk hero who is best known for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
  • Fast Facts:

    1. Born: September 17, 1935
    2. Died: November 10, 2001
    3. Birthplace: La Junta, Colorado
    4. Birth Name: Kenneth Elton Kesey
    5. Participated in Project MKULTRA
    6. Favorite Band: The Grateful Dead
    7. Member of the Merry Pranksters
    8. Authored over a dozen novels

  • Drug Culture

    While attending Stanford University in 1959, Kesey took part in a volutary CIA funded drug testing program called Project MKULTRA. The project took place at the Menlo Park Veterans Hospital, and provided the background for his writing project, which would later become One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The testing was over a broad range of psychoactive drugs which included LSD, mescaline and cocaine. Kesey went on after the project to perform his own testing, to the point of hosting "acid parties" once he arrived on the west coast.

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