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Born to dairy farmers in Colorado, Kesey then moved with his family to
Springfield, Oregon. In college at the University of Oregon, he married his high
school sweetheart Norma “Faye” Haxby in 1956 and they had three children:
Jed, Zane, and Shannon. Kesey later had another child, Sunshine, with Carolyn
“Mountain Girl” Adams in 1966. Kesey enrolled in a creative writing program
at Stanford University in 1958 and joined a study called Project MKULTRA,
which analyzed the effects of psychedelic drugs. He worked as a night aide in
the veteran’s hospital. His work there inspired him to write One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest.
Being different: Excesses and experiments as
a radiography of a generation.
Being different: radiography of a generation.
A beaten generation: leaving as laboratory
rats.
Hippyness: the reflect of a beaten generation.