Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters
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Abstract

Ken Kesey (1935–2001) was best known as the author of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962); as an early proponent of the use of the hallucinogen LSD; as the leader of a communal group called the Merry Pranksters; and, although he saw himself as “too young to be a beatnik and too old to be a hippie,” as a leading figure of the counterculture. Kesey was born into a conventional family, the son of Colorado dairy farmers who married his high school sweetheart and missed the Olympic wrestling team only because of a shoulder injury.

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