
Books by Ken Kesey
Lived: 1935–2001
Nationality: American
Gender: male
Catalog: 2 books
KEN KESEY was born in La Junta, Colorado, but his family later moved to Springfield, Oregon, where he attended public schools, and later the University of Oregon at Eugene. He has received the Woodrow Wilson scholarship to Stanford University and a Saxton Fellowship, and won the Fred Lowe Scholarship awarded to the outstanding wrestler in the Northwest. Mr. Kesey was king of the Merry Pranksters, a group which traveled the West Coast staging happenings; as a leader of this group, Mr. Kesey appeared as subject and star in the bestseller, THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST, by Tom Wolfe. At present he is "scratching his athlete's foot on his farm in Oregon, watching his kids and blueberries grow." Photo: By <span title="must have been published or publicly displayed outside Wikipedia">Source</span> (<a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_content_criteria#4" title="Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria">WP:NFCC#4</a>), <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ken_Kesey,_American_author,_1935-2001.jpg" title="Fair use of copyrighted material in the context of Ken Kesey">Fair use</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54571568">Link</a>
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Ken Kesey · 1962 · 13 lists
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Sometimes a Great Notion
Ken Kesey · 1964 · 4 lists
This author appears in the following lists:
100 Best Novels in English, Since 1900
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1001 books to read before you die
Critics' list50 Books to (Re-)Read at 50
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BBC Big Read
Readers' listEsquire's 80 Best Books Every Man Should Read (2015)
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Harvard Book Store Top 100
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Koen's Top 100
NewLibraries' Top 500
PublicationModern Library 100 Best Novels The Readers List
Readers' listParade's Top 222 of all Time
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Radcliffe's Top 100
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The 100 Greatest American Novels, 1893 – 1993
WebsiteThe Learning Channel Great Books
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The New York Public Library's Books of the Century
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