There's no question that Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has become an American classic, but its author said in 1992 that his own favorite novel was another fiction landmark — Herman ...

The unpublished memoir is about the Merry Pranksters. You know the Pranksters: Ken Kesey, the “magic bus,” the Acid Tests. Whole different readership for that subject. Maybe, at this point ...

Ever since it was published 50 years ago critics have described Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest as the great nonconformist novel, but Nathaniel Rich writes that the novel’s true ...

Awarded a fellowship in '58, Ken Kesey enrolls in Stanford's creative writing program. In his Palo Alto home, he begins writing a novel about the beat scene in nearby San Francisco, and meets many ...

In 1968, Garcia helped pen a song for The Grateful Dead about the original Furthur (spelled with two u’s) bus that author Ken Kesey and his free-wheeling cohorts called the Merry Pranksters ...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest producer Michael Douglas admits his "real sadness" over the book's author refusing to see the 1975 movie.

Ken Kesey (1935–2001) is one of the best-known authors to ever emerge from Oregon. He wrote his two most-acclaimed novels, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) and Sometimes a Great Notion ...

Zane Kesey picks at clumps of moss and swirls of brightly colored paint and patches of rust covering the school bus that his father, the late author Ken Kesey, rode cross-country with a ...