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May 2, 2019 · We’re sitting at the kitchen table in John’s San Jose home that he shares with his son’s family when he just launches into it – a tangent so tangled and yet precise that there’s no mistaking it. This is the son of the wildly wordy, lightening-in-a-bottle Neal freakin’ Cassady.
Neal Leon Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of the 1960s. Cassady published only two short fragments of prose in his lifetime, but exerted considerable intellectual and stylistic influence through his conversation and ...
Neal Cassady was the free-wheeling, frenetic, hedonistic “Holy Fool” that inspired (and slept with) some of the Beat Generation’s most iconic writers. He was the man behind Jack Kerouac’s character, Dean Moriarty, in On the Road.
Dec 12, 2012 · Stylistically uneven and factually unreliable, it is nevertheless a fascinating look at his peripatetic origins, dealing principally with his experiences on Denver’s skid row with his wino...
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Nov 19, 2006 · Neal Cassady's mother, he assured his readers, was named on her son's birth certificate as Maude Jean Scheuer. She was born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1890.
Apr 25, 2018 · Neal Cassady met Jack Kerouac as a young man, but never imagined the influence he would have over him, and other writers of the Beat generation in the years to come.
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Mar 11, 2022 · Earlier that month a nearly 16,000-word handwritten letter from Cassady, a jittering, picaresque fragment about his sexploits as a young hoodlum in Denver, had snapped Kerouac awake and...
