Word: kesey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...busy living his autobiography to write it. For this reason he entered modern folklore through the eyes of others, his adventures fictionalized or romanticized. By the time he appears in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test as the bus driver for Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, he is an aging parody of himself. Carolyn Cassady does not allow this to happen in her book. Even when she is describing her former husband at his most impossible, she never totally forgets the possibilities of his youth. Others obviously felt the same way and wanted a piece of Cassady...