Ken Kesey

Sep 17, 1935 - Nov 10, 2001

Summary

Ken Kesey was a writer, born in La Junta, Colorado. He earned a degree in journalism from the University of Oregon in 1957 and then studied creative writing at Stanford in the late 50s. While at Stanford he tried hallucinogens for the first time after volunteering for a government research program at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Menlo Park, CA. As part of the program, Kesey was given LSD, psilocybin, mescaline and AMT.

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