Kesey
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
Raised on the outskirts of tiny Archer City, Texas, to a cattle-ranching family and educated in the California hills of Berkeley alongside Wendell Berry and Ken Kesey, McMurtry was a tangle of contradictions.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
Kerouac declined, but Mr. Lord was so impressed by the book that he ended up representing Kesey for his next work, “Sometimes a Great Notion.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2022
Ken Kesey said, "You sit down and you write a book"— never done that.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2022
“Really? Your bus driver, Mr. Kesey, said he didn’t see a thing.”
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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