Who is the author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"?

Ken Kesey wrote “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” The American novelist published the book in 1962, creating a fierce critique of institutional authority through life inside an Oregon psychiatric hospital.

The novel is narrated largely through Chief Bromden, a patient who pretends to be deaf and mute. Its most disruptive figure is Randle Patrick McMurphy, whose resistance to Nurse Ratched challenges the ward’s rigid rules and exposes the power dynamics controlling the patients’ lives.

Kesey drew on experiences working night shifts at a psychiatric hospital and participating in government drug experiments while at Stanford. The book is often confused with its famous 1975 film adaptation, but the author of the original novel is Kesey, not the film’s screenwriters or director. Dale Wasserman later adapted it for the stage, and the film won five Academy Awards.