This paper
explains "The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test" as a non-fiction account of the life of novelist Ken Kesey and his
band of Merry Pranksters. Wolfe's book follows Kesey's life from his beginnings as a promising middle-class athlete and academic. Kelsey was voted the boy most likely to succeed, and went on to Stanford University on a creative
writing scholarship. It
explains that he was an unlikely person to eventually become one of the most notorious figures in the psychedelic world. However the story shows how at Stanford, Kesey became involved with the "hippie movement" at Penny Lane.