- Date de naissance
- Date de décès10 novembre 2001 · Eugene, Oregon, États-Unis (après une chirurgie pour un cancer du foie)
- Nom de naissanceKenneth Elton Kesey
- Ken Kesey est né le 17 septembre 1935 dans le Colorado, États-Unis. Il était scénariste et acteur. Il est connu pour Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou (1975), Twister: A Musical Catastrophe (2000) et Le clan des irréductibles (1971). Il était marié à Faye Kesey. Il est mort le 10 novembre 2001 dans l'Oregon, États-Unis.
- ConjointFaye Kesey(20 mai 1956 - 10 novembre 2001) (son décès, 4 enfants)
- In 1967 he fathered a daughter, Sunshine, with a woman who called herself "Mountain Girl", who in the 1980s married musician Jerry Garcia.
- Never saw (nor wanted to see) the movie Vol au-dessus d'un nid de coucou (1975), based on his novel, because he had "other people in mind".
- In 1959 he volunteered for drug experiments at a hospital in Menlo Park, California, where he worked in the psychiatric ward. That served as his inspiration for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". He was not, as many have come to believe, a patient in the ward when he volunteered for those experiments. He worked there as an attendant.
- The motion picture Gerry (2002) directed by Gus Van Sant is dedicated to his memory.
- His son Jed, killed in a 1984 van wreck on a road trip with the University of Oregon wrestling team, was buried in the back yard.
- [on not being mentioned as author of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest', when it won the Best Picture award] Oscar night should have been one of the great days of my life, like my wedding. I really love movies. When they can be turned around to break your heart like this, well, it's like something you never thought would happen.
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