Ken kesey new biography of ben

Ken Elton Kesey was born September 17, 1935, to the dairy farmers Fred and Geneva Smith Kesey.

Ken kesey new biography of ben

Though he was born in La Junta, Colorado, his family moved to Springfield, Oregon, just outside Eugene, in 1946, and the landscape of the Pacific Northwest became the backdrop for most of Kesey’s life, as well as his writings.

In his greatest works, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) and Sometimes a Great Notion (1964), the Oregon setting constitutes not just the location but also the landscape of the characters’ life experience.

Today Kesey is considered not just one of the principal writers of that American region but also of the United States as a whole.

His capacity to represent universal human struggles and emotions eloquently and humorously has allowed him to transcend the label of a regional writer, and his major novels are known as some of the greatest to be written during the 1960s.

Kesey and his brother, Chuck, spent a lot