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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

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 Lord was so impressed by the book that he ended up representing Kesey for his next work, “Sometimes a Great Notion.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2022

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

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2022

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

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

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