The author of “Sometimes a Great Notion” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” died this past weekend, two weeks after cancer surgery to remove 40 percent of his liver. Ken Kesey, who waited 28 years to publish his third novel (pulling a Thomas Harris before Thomas Harris), was also known for taking a psychedelic bus filled with friends and LSD-spiked Kool-Aid to the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

In a recorded message, his daughter Babbs said “If he has one legacy, it is for us the living to carry on with courage, compassion, generosity and love.”