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Kesey

British  
/ ˈkiːsɪ /

noun

  1. Ken. 1935–2001, US novelist, best-known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Army basic-training instructor, he became a trendsetter in California’s 1960s alternative culture, hanging out with Ken Kesey, designing multimedia happenings and, in 1968, launching the Whole Earth Catalog.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

Ken Kesey said, "You sit down and you write a book"— never done that.

From Salon • Sep. 4, 2022

In 1962, he met Kesey, author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” and Kesey’s band of Merry Pranksters while at Stanford University as part of a creative writing fellowship, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2021

In 2011 he married Norma Faye Kesey, Ken Kesey’s widow, and she moved in with Mr. McMurtry and Ms. Ossana.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2021

Not that Mr. Kesey would ever notice, Roy thought.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

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