Ken Kesey. Creative with Chemicals

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Ken Elton Kesey was born in 1935 and died in 2001. Kesey most well known for his novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" which he wrote at Stanford University creative writing course. During high school Kesey was a top notch athlete and voted most likely to succeed. During his life Kesey volunteered to take part in a CIA-financed study named project MK ULTRA at the Menlo Park Veterans Hospital in which he ingested lots of drugs and wrote about his experiences. It is said after those particular experiences he became an active role model in counter culture. Ken Kesey and his friends had acid parties and served LSD laced Kool aid. During one of his hallucinations he envisioned an Indian sweeping the floors of a hospital which was his reasoning for making One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Ken Kesey and his group of creative drug users called the Merry Pranksters travelled the land in a psychedelic bus named "Further" eventually their trip was made into a book and a movie called "Some Times a Great Notion" it was a academy award winner. Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was also made in to a motion picture and a broad way. The film was not Kesey's likings as he later sued the production. One of the main reasons he did not like the film was because it was not narrated by Cheif Bromden, a character in the book.