One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest:

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• The story is made up of series of skirmishes between McMurphy and Big Nurse.
• This novel written by Ken Kesey.
• The novel was written in 1959 but wasn't published until 1962.
• The novel was such a success that it was later adapted into a film, which won five Academy Awards.
• The novel later became known as a classic American novel.
• The novel was a direct product of Kesey's time working the graveyard shift as an orderly at a mental health facility in Menlo Park, California.

Ken Kesey:

• Ken Kesey, born in 1935, was raised on farms in Colorado and Oregon.
• In 1959, when he volunteered to be a subject in experiments with hallucinogenic drugs, he also began working the night shift in a mental ward. Parts of the novel were written there.
• Until his death in 2001, Kesey resided in Oregon.