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Ken KeseyDies at 66 in Oregon Hospital
Novelist Ken Kesey died in Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene two weeks after cancer surgery. The Oregon author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest helped define the 1960s with the Merry Pranksters LSD voyage and later works including Sometimes a Great Nation and Sailor Song.
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Stanford University
Larry McMurtry
Stanford
Los Angeles Times
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Charles Bowden
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Calif
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Ken Babbs
Port Royal
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Willamette Valley
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