Brief interview with Kesey explores Kesey's feelings about the death of his son in 1994 and the impact it had on his thinking.
Christopher Reed provides an overview of the life of the Merry Prankster who died on Nov. 10, 2001, one week after his fellow Prankster, Sandy Lehmann-Haupt, died.
Read an interview with Kesey conducted by phone on September 13, 1992. Kesey muses about the future of literature in the Information Age.
Learn more about Ken Kesey and his travel with the Merry Pranksters. Find links to books and sites devoted to their escapades.
Further Travels with Ken Kesey provides biographical details about this '60s documentor and one-time Merry Prankster. Order a catalog of works.
Sean Elder remembers the late "link between the beats and the hippies" as a quintessential American who "made himself the hero of his life."
Brook Wilensky-Lanford explains how Kesey's presence and advice to "keep moving" has impacted her family.
Read Rob Elder's previously unpublished 1999 interview with Captain Flag at Pleasant Hill farm and learn about Kesey's "big-time generosity folded into gigantic nerve."
Find out how Gerald Nicosia, Neeli Cherkovski, Country Joe McDonald, Bob Weir, Stewart Brand, Allen Cohen, and others plan to send off the late Merry Prankster.
Obituary for the psychonaut leader of the Merry Pranksters and author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Sometimes a Great Notion," and "Sailor Song."
David Kipen quotes friends of the "larger-than-life" Prankster, all of whom single out his generous spirit. Includes a brief biography.
Famed for his novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," writer Ken Kesey was inspired by Jack Kerouac and influenced a great deal by the Beat Generation who preceded him.