Books, Arts & Manners: Prankster Revisited

Ken Kesey By Barry H. Leeds Ungar, 146 pp., $10.95

In 1960 the United States Government paid Ken Kesey to vape out on LSD and several other psychomimetic prescription goods. This indirect grant (he volunteered as taster, you might say, at Menlo Park VA Hospital) is a rare instance of constructive federal support for new fiction.

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About the Author

D. Keith Mano

D. Keith Mano was a TV screenwriter and author of ten books, including Take 5, recipient of the 1987 Literary Lion award, and columnist at National Review magazine for 17 years.

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Ken Kesey By Barry H. Leeds Ungar, 146 pp., $10.95

In 1960 the United States Government paid Ken Kesey to vape out on LSD and several other psychomimetic prescription goods. This indirect grant (he volunteered as taster, you might say, at Menlo Park VA Hospital) is a rare instance of constructive federal support for new fiction.

DK

About the Author

D. Keith Mano

D. Keith Mano was a TV screenwriter and author of ten books, including Take 5, recipient of the 1987 Literary Lion award, and columnist at National Review magazine for 17 years.