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In the mid-1960s, Ken Kesey stormed the public stage like few writers ever have. His first two novels, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion, were immediate American classics and best-sellers, soon to appear on stages and in films featuring famed actors. Tom Wolfe’s Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test detailed Kesey’s cross-country adventures with his band of “Merry pranksters” and beat icon Neal Cassady, and made both himself and Kesey even more renowned. And then Kesey, beset by legal and other troubles, basically stepped offstage, spending the rest of his life as a family man and occasional author with a notably lower profile until his death in 2001 at the age of 66. But where had he come from? His youth was akin to that of a real-life Huck Finn who transformed into a revolutionary counter-cultural figure.
That’s the story of It’s All a Kind of Magic: The Young Ken Kesey, Rick Dodgson’s biography of the first 30 years of Kesey’s life.
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