What is your opinion on Ken Kesey?

Ken Kesey, the Pied Piper of the psychedelic era, who was best known as the author of the novel ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,'' died yesterday in a hospital in Eugene, Ore., said his wife, Faye. He was 66 and lived in Pleasant Hill, Ore. read more

Ken Kesey's acid character and his rock and roll and merry prankster antics out of La Honda probably makes it hard for the literati to take him seriously in retrospect. read more

That book was followed by Sometimes a Great Notion and several works of nonfiction that detailed Kesey's transformation from novelist to guru of the hippie generation. Kesey died in Eugene, Oregon in 2001. Rugged Wrestler. Ken Elton Kesey was born September 17, 1935, in La Junta, Colorado. read more