Nguyen,Michelle, Research Paper "To hell with facts! We need stories!" - Ken Kesey Ken Kesey was an author well known for his rational writing style. Of his many works of literature, his most famous is One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest; a novel revolving around the pressures of society and shame. Kesey is considered one of the most influential authors in modern American Literature as a, “...counter-cultural figure who was a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s”
friends and family. Even though his final years were a struggle, he persistently kept a smile on his face to the day he deceased. Kesey wrote multiple screenplays, and 44 books, not many of them were very notable however, one emerged from the shadows. “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” one of the greatest works of American literature, catalyzed Ken Kesey’s career and fame. He wrote the book while working in an insane asylum; he was also under
Sean Freebern One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Essay The 1950s—a time of change, conflict, and turmoil—also becomes the setting of Ken Kesey’s great American novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. In the ‘50s, Kesey worked the night-shift on a mental ward; concurrently, the government also paid him, as part of an experiment, to take LSD to discover its effects on the mind. Both Kesey’s time on the job and the influence of drugs led him to observe that many of the patients on the ward on which he