What was Ken Kesey's inspiration for writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
What was Ken Kesey's inspiration for writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? The inspiration for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest came while Kesey was working the night shift with Gordon Lish at the Menlo Park Veterans' Hospital. There, Kesey often spent time talking to the patients, sometimes under the influence of the hallucinogenic drugs he had volunteered to experiment with.
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