Saturday, May 14, 2011

Ken Kesey's Widow Marries Larry McMurtry


Congratulations!

From a piece in the Oregonian...

McMurtry and Ken Kesey were classmates in the graduate writing program at Stanford University in the late 1950s. Kesey became famous when his first novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," was published in 1962 and became a successful Broadway play. McMurtry's first novel, "Horseman, Pass By," was published a year earlier. He went on to write 44 books and numerous screenplays, including the Academy Award-winning "Brokeback Mountain." Kesey stopped writing for several years after his second novel, "Sometimes a Great Notion," was published in 1964. He died in 2001.

McMurtry and Faye Kesey were married in a civil ceremony and are said to be on their honeymoon. Karren Winter, the county clerk in Archer City, told the Dallas Morning News that the couple was "truly happy, they’re very sweet. It was really good to see Larry look so happy. They were just the sweetest couple coming in to get their marriage license.”

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