Ken Kesey

Social : None | End a program of study 1957 (Earned B.A.) | Social : None | Begin a program of study 1958 (Began study of writing at Stanford) | Work : None | New Job 1961 in Menlo Park (Mental hospital orderly) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1962 (Book, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") | Financial : None | Buy/Sell Property 1962 (Film rights to "One Flew Over...") | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1964 (Book, "Sometimes a Great Notion") | Financial : None | Buy/Sell Property 1965 in Pleasant Hill (Purchased farm) | Work : None | Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1975 (Book turned film, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") | Work : None | Prize 1991 (Robert Kirsch Award) | Health : None | Medical diagnosis 23 September 1997 in Pleasant Hill (Stroke; recovered fully) | Health : None | Medical procedure October 2001 (Surgery for tumor on liver mid-October) | : None | Death by Disease 10 November 2001 (Liver cancer, age 66) | Traits : Mind | Education extensive (Studied writing at Stanford) | Diagnoses : Major Diseases | Stroke (Recovered, affected right arm) | Diagnoses : Psychological | Abuse Drugs (Once jailed six months) | Family : Relationship | Marriage - Compatible (Married high-school sweetheart) | Family : Relationship | Number of Marriages (One) | Family : Parenting | Extraordinarily nurturing (Devoted family man) | Family : Parenting | Kids more than 3 (Four) | Family : Parenting | Kids -Traumatic event (Son died on wrestling trip) | Lifestyle : Work | Many job changes | Lifestyle : Work | Travel for work (Travel with band) | Lifestyle : Social Life | Travel (Some time in Mexico) | Passions : None | Drug business (Arrested on marijuana charges) | Passions : None | Prison sentence (Time in jail) | Vocation : Entertainment | Actor/ Actress | Vocation : Entertain/Music | Group/ Duo (The Merry Pranksters) | Vocation : Entertain/Music | Instrumentalist | Vocation : Medical | Nurse/ Nurse's Aids (Mental hospital orderly) | Vocation : Medical | Technician (Test subject for experiments) | Vocation : Sports | Wrestling (On college wrestling team) | Vocation : Writers | Fiction | Vocation : Writers | Playwright/ script (Script, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") | Vocation : Misc. | Farmer/ Rancher | Vocation : Misc. | Physical labor (Logger) | Notable : Awards | Vocational award (Robert Kirsch Award) | Notable : Famous | Top 5% of Profession | Notable : Book Collection | Culture Collection