Ken Kesey

(1935–2001)

American novelist and counterculture figure. Author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) — one of the most powerful fictional critiques of institutional power and the suppression of individuality — and Sometimes a Great Notion (1964). Leader of the Merry Pranksters, whose cross-country bus trip became a defining event of 1960s counterculture. Kesey's work touches questions of freedom, conformity, and human dignity that a pastoral theologian would find resonant even across the cultural distance.

Connection

Herbert reaches Ken Kesey through Frank Barrett. (How Frank knows or is connected to Kesey: to be filled in.)