Ken Kesey Autographs
Ken Elton Kesey (/ˈkiːziː/; September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) 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.
Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado, and grew up in Springfield, Oregon, graduating from the University of Oregon in 1957. He began writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1960 after completing a graduate fellowship in creative writing at Stanford University; the novel was an immediate commercial and critical success when published two years later. During this period, Kesey was used by the CIA without his knowledge in the Project MKULTRA involving hallucinogenic drugs (including mescaline and LSD), which was done to try to make people insane to put them under the control of interrogators.
After One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was published, Kesey moved to nearby La Honda, California, and began hosting "happenings" with former colleagues from Stanford, bohemian and literary figures including Neal Cassady and other friends, who became collectively known as the Merry Pranksters. As documented in Tom Wolfe's 1968 New Journalism book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, some of the parties were promoted to the public as Acid Tests, and integrated the consumption of LSD with multimedia performances. He mentored the Grateful Dead, who were the Acid Tests' house band, and continued to exert a profound influence upon the group throughout their career.
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Traded items with a signature of Ken Kesey
The most expensive item with a signature of Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 1962 1st Ed 1st Print Signed Card) was sold in February 2025 for $7,000.00 while the cheapest item (Ken Kesey Signed VHS-Intrepid Traveller Episode One Cover Only) found a new owner for $0.99 in April 2015. The month with the most items sold (3) was April 2017 with an average selling price of $265.00 for an autographed item of Ken Kesey. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in October 2015 with $504.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $9.38 was April 2018. In average, an autographed item from Ken Kesey is worth $94.38.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Ken Kesey were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Acid Test diploma. SIGNED by Ken Kesey. | $123.61 |  |
| Acid Test diploma. SIGNED by Ken Kesey. | $123.61 | |
| Acid Test diploma. SIGNED by Ken Kesey. | $123.61 | |
| Furthur On! The Calendar 1992 Ken Kesey AUTOGRAPHED | $9.38 | |
| Furthur On! The Calendar 1992 Ken Kesey AUTOGRAPHED | $9.38 | |
| Furthur On! The Calendar 1992 Ken Kesey AUTOGRAPHED | $9.38 | |
| KEN KESEY Autographed Calendar FURTHER ON! 1992 | $175.00 | |
| KEN KESEY Autographed Calendar FURTHER ON! 1992 | $175.00 | |
| KEN KESEY Autographed Calendar FURTHER ON! 1992 | $175.00 | |
| Ken Kesey Trepid Traveller And His Merry Band Signed VHS #1294 Rare Acid Test | $150.00 | |
| Ken Kesey Trepid Traveller And His Merry Band Signed VHS #1294 Rare Acid Test | $150.00 | |
| Ken Kesey Trepid Traveller And His Merry Band Signed VHS #1294 Rare Acid Test | $150.00 | |
| Rare Ken Kesey / Ken Babbs, bus Further On 1992 calendar SIGNED by Kesey & Babbs | $24.99 | |
| Rare Ken Kesey / Ken Babbs, bus Further On 1992 calendar SIGNED by Kesey & Babbs | $24.99 | |
| Rare Ken Kesey / Ken Babbs, bus Further On 1992 calendar SIGNED by Kesey & Babbs | $24.99 | |
