One flew over the cuckoo's nest : a novel, Kesey, K.
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The title of this book is one flew over the cuckoo’s nest.The writer of the book is Ken Kesey.Ken Kesey was born in Colorado in 1935. He studied at the University of Oregon, where he graduated in 1957. Ken worked in a psychiatric ward of a veterans' hospital for a while. Towards the end of the sixties he founded a group called The Merry Pranksters, who experimented with drugs, travelled through the country and critized the narrow-mindedness of the American system. Tougher police control caused the group to split up. Ken fled to Mexico to escape a five-year prison sentence for possession of marijuana. Ken now lives on a farm in Oregon.One flew over the cuckoo's nest was made into an award-winning film directed by Mil