Paul M. Foster (November 7, 1934 – June 23, 2003)[1] was a Merry Prankster best known for illustrating the book Kesey's Garage Sale.
Foster was a mathematical genius and became a computer programmer "in the days of wooden transistors" as he would say.
He hired the future members of the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane, Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen, Jerry Garcia, Odetta, Jessie Fuller.
He gave up computing to join Kesey and the Pranksters, living in a tree house in La Honda.
He died unexpectedly of a heart attack in 2003 after filling in the last page of his journal, suggesting that we forget the Alamo and seek love.