Ken Kesey (19352001) is the author of several works of well-known fiction and other hard-to-classify material. His debut novel, , was a critical and commercial sensation that was followed soon after by his most substantial and ambitious book, . His other books, including , and two childrens books, appeared amidst a life of astounding influence. He is maybe best known for his role as the charismatic and proto-hippie leader of the West Coast LSD movement that sparked The Sixties, as iconically recounted in Tom Wolfes . In the introduction to An Impolite Interview with Ken Kesey, Paul Krassner writes, For a man who says he doesnt like to do interviews, Kesey certainly does a lot of them. Whats most surprising about this statement is not the incongruity between disliking and doing interviews but the idea that Kesey could possibly have been less than enthusiastic about being the center of attention. After his two great triumphs, writing played a lesser role in Keseys life, but in thoughtful interviews he sometimes regrets the books that were sacrificed for the sake of his other pursuits. Interviews trace his arc through success, fame, prison, farming, and tragedythe death of his son in a car accident profoundly altered his life. These conversations make clear Keseys central place in American culture and offer his enduring lesson that the freedom exists to create lives as wildly as can be imagined.

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