Ken Kesey

Born: 17 September 1935 in La Junta, Colorado, USA.
Died: 10 November 2001 in Eugene, Oregon, USA.
American writer, most famous for his greatest works One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1962) and Sometimes A Great Notion (1964). He initiated the collective in the early sixties. As a cultural and literary figure, he stands at the midpoint between the Beatniks of the 1950's and the Hippies of the 1960's, freely admitting to borrowing from [a=Jack Kerouac] quite consciously.