was to find a phone booth and consult the directory — in those days there were phone booths, with well-abused directories in them — for Ken Kesey. He was there, listed in nearby Pleasant Hill.

Awarded a fellowship in '58, Ken Kesey enrolls in Stanford's creative writing program. In his Palo Alto home, he begins writing a novel about the beat scene in nearby San Francisco, and meets many ...

O. U. Levon, Author, Ken Kesey, Author, Robert Blucher, Author Penguin Books $9.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-14-012208-4 Eccentric characters and entertaining incidents boost the pace of this novel but ...