[DOC] [TLE] Ken Kesey Biography - CliffsNotes [PAR] Personal Background Ken Kesey most often is characterized as the literary ... 
cactus) and psilocybin (mushrooms) at the Veterans' Administration Hospital. ... 
Kesey's interest in altered consciousness led him to accept a position in a mental 
hospital. ... Despite the publication of other works, including the novel Sometimes 
a... [DOC] [TLE] Ken Kesey - Wikipedia [PAR] Kenneth Elton "Ken" Kesey was an American novelist, essayist, and 
countercultural figure. ... After a third novel (Sailor Song) was released to 
lukewarm reviews in 1992, he reunited .... Kesey's role as a medical guinea pig, 
as well as his stint working at the Veterans' Administration hospital, inspired him 
to ..... Mental Floss. [DOC] [TLE] Ken Kesey, Author of 'Cuckoo's Nest,' Who Defined the Psychedelic ... [PAR] Nov 11, 2001 ... Ken Kesey, novelist and Pied Piper of psychedelic era, dies at age 66; photos (M) 
... To earn extra money and to work on a novel called ''Zoo,'' about the ... also took 
a job as a night attendant on the psychiatric ward of the hospital. ... and it 
provided the raw material for ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. [DOC] [TLE] Ken Kesey Biography - life, family, childhood, children, story, wife ... [PAR] In 1962 American writer Ken Kesey (19352001) rose to prominence when 
Viking ... several drama and documentary scripts for a course offered by Dean 
Starlin. ... with a Baptist background was wearing a beard, smoking marijuana, 
and working on ... Kesey's next novel was based on his work at the Veterans' 
Hospital and... [DOC] [TLE] Kesey's 'Cuckoo's Nest' Still Flying At 50 : NPR [PAR] Feb 1, 2012 ... Ken Kesey, the late author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, ... in the 
psychiatric ward of the Menlo Park Veteran's Hospital, near Palo Alto, Calif. ... in 
the novel were based on people in the ward where he was working. [DOC] [TLE] Ken Kesey - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] Jun 11, 2014 ... Background ... who has been in the mental hospital since the end of World War II, 
sees a ... The novel's critique of the mental ward as an instrument of ... Ken Kesey 
never recovered from the operation and died on ... of the 1960s provided much of 
the context in which Kesey's works gained such popularity. [DOC] [TLE] One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - Greatest Films [PAR] Its allegorical theme is set in the world of an authentic mental hospital ... And 
actor James Caan was also originally offered the lead role of McMurphy, and 
Marlon ... and adapted from author Ken Kesey's 1962 popular, best-selling novel 
of the ... secondary characters from real-life psychiatric ward patients at a VA 
hospital (in... [DOC] [TLE] Ken Kesey biography - Essaylet.com! [PAR] Here you will find a brief information on Ken Kesey and his works. ... While 
working as an orderly at the psychiatric ward of the local VA hospital, Kesey 
began to ... Despite the chaos at La Honda, Kesey managed to finish his second 
novel, ... the background for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, set in a mental 
hospital. [DOC] [TLE] ken kesey and literary shamanism - The University of North Carolina ... [PAR] Cuckoo's Nest, Randle P. McMurphy's entrance onto the psychiatric ward ... Ken 
Kesey dedicated his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, to Vik Lovell, a 
... Wolfe's journalistic work investigates the altered states of consciousness that 
..... involving psychedelics at the Menlo Park Veteran's Hospital, not far from his... [DOC] [TLE] Cuckoos - Fredonia.edu [PAR] Bibbit, a young man in the ward, is encouraged by McMurphy to sleep with a ... 
Schickel maintains that some of the true mental drama of Ken Kesey's novel is ... 
Schickel seeks more depth in the characters than is provided by the script. .... by 
Kesey's part-time job as an orderly in a Palo Alto veterans

Question: Ken Kesey's work in the mental ward of a V.A. hospital provided background for this novel
Answer: One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Nest