Kesey burst into the literary scene with the Cuckoo's Nest in 1962 which he wrote from his experiences working at a veterans hospital. During this period, he volunteered for the testing on the drug LSD. After writing his second novel, Sometimes A Great Notion, he bought an old school bus dubbed Further. With Neal Cassidy at the wheel and pitchers of LSD-laced-Kool-Laid in the cooler, Kesey and a band of friends who called themselves The Merry Pranksters took a trip across America to New York ...[Read Story]