Ken Kesey

Ken Kesey (1935–2001) was an American writer. From 1959, he studied creative writing at Stanford University in Palo Alto. He became internationally known for his novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” In the 1960s, Kesey founded the Merry Pranksters, a communal group that organized so-called Acid Tests, events exploring new forms of perception and social interaction. Their tours across the United States in the brightly painted bus “Furthur” later became widely known through Tom Wolfe’s book “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.”