# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ken-kesey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:09:48.230Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ken-kesey"
name: "Ken Kesey"
slug: "ken-kesey"
description: "Kenneth Elton Kesey was an American novelist, essayist, and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s."
tagline: "American novelist (1935–2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ken_Kesey_in_Pasadena_in_1974_from_The_Big_T_1974_(page_45_crop).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1935-09-17"
deathDate: "2001-11-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    url:       "http://www.intrepidtrips.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump