Ken Kesey

Ken Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) wrote a book, a good book in fact, then spent the best part of thirty years frying his brains in the name of progress. He went bald at a young age and "dug" old school buses.

Early life

Ken Kesey (née Neville Kensington Keysterworth III) was conceived in Colorado, and was born soon after.

From an early age he displayed a predilection for mind-altering substances, and was repeatedly disciplined for attempting to make Capri Sun pruno in his kindergarten classroom.

By 1957 Kesey had graduated to harder drugs. It was at this time, during a three-day crystal meth bender, that Kesey discovered his aptitude for wrestling. This talent for wrestling took Kesey first to community college and then to Stanford University. Due to his impressive grappling abilities, multiple security guards and police officers were required to remove Kesey from both campuses in order to prevent injuries to the respective schools' students.

Descent into LAX

In 1959 the Stanford police department sold Kesey to the Menlo Park Veterans Hospital for the testing of psychoactive drugs. A number of conspiracists have theorized that this experience inspired him to begin writing. However, in a number of interviews Kesey himself has asserted that "the title just came to [him]" during a non-stop flight from Miami to Los Angeles.

With the money earned from the success of his first novel, Kesey either moved to La Honda, California, or purchased a Honda in California, in the mid 1960s. Few historical records exist for this era, but historians and anthropologists are quite positive that some form of transportation came into the picture during this time.

Trivia, other, etc.

Kesey wrote a bunch of other stuff, and did a metric crapload of drugs. Enough to kill a burro. Soon after moving to Oregon, he died. While the cause of death is unclear, doctors suspect that it may have been caused by, or related to, the copious amounts of drugs that Kesey consumed throughout his life.