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Events on Saturday 10 November 2001 1
1935 – 2001Ken Kesey (1935-2001)Died 10 November 2001, aged 66Kesey wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, drawing on his work as an aide in a psychiatric ward, and Sometimes a Great Notion. He then largely abandoned fiction to lead the Merry Pranksters, whose LSD-fuelled bus trip was chronicled by Tom Wolfe. He linked the Beat generation to the 1960s counterculture.