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Oct 5, 2018 · Cassady with his friend Jack Kerouac, whose On the Road was inspired by the “Joan Anderson Letter.” Courtesy of the Neal Cassady Estate. At the same time, Cassady also was a literary influence who pushed Kerouac toward spontaneous prose.
In the film Across the Universe (2007), the character Dr. Robert, played by Bono, is said to have been inspired by Neal Cassady. [28]
As well as being represented as Dean Moriarty in Kerouac’s most famous book, Cassady was fictionalised as Cody or Cody Pomeray in several of Kerouac’s later works spanning 1958 to 1965, and as Leroy in ‘The Subterraneans’ (1958).
Feb 1, 2010 · One of those Americans was an intelligent literary legend and general roustabout named Neal Cassady, the man who inspired the character of Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac’s landmark novel, On the Road.
Oct 2, 2018 · Jack Kerouac called Neal Cassady’s “Joan Anderson Letter” “the greatest piece of writing I ever saw.” Written in 1950, it became the inspiration for “On The Road.” One highlight of the letter was a colorful account of a wild afternoon in a Denver flophouse in December 1945.
Apr 25, 2018 · Cassady asked Kerouac to teach him how to write fiction. In turn, Kerouac cited Cassady as the main source of inspiration for his spontaneous prose writing style that he modeled after a personal letter Cassady had written to him in 1950.
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After the second world war, things changed fast in America. Legions of middle-class families abandoned the big cities and built comfortable lives in the suburbs. Few individuals seem prepared to break the chrome-clad, dollar-stamped mould. But one that did was Neal Cassady.
