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In the film Across the Universe (2007), the character Dr. Robert, played by Bono, is said to have been inspired by Neal Cassady. [28]
Feb 7, 2017 · Denver native Neal Cassady Inspired Jack Kerouac to write On the Road. But his legacy includes more than the Beat Generation: He also fathered a secret son, Robert Hyatt.
Oct 5, 2018 · At the front of the room, Cathy Cassady, 69, was narrating a PowerPoint presentation about her father, Neal. She was talking about his infamous “Joan Anderson Letter,” one of the legendary lost artifacts of American literature.
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 .
Adopted that Autumn by a local firefighter called Robert William Hyatt, the boy was renamed Robert William Hyatt Jr.. He only learned who his real mother was in 1993, five years after she died, and finally obtained his birth certificate naming Cassady as his father in 2011.
Inspired by a 10,000-word rambling letter from his friend, Neal Cassady, Kerouac, in 1950, outlined the "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose" and decided to tell the story of his years on the road with Cassady, as if writing a letter to a friend in a form that reflected the improvisational fluidity of jazz. [5]
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Nov 24, 2020 · The result was an explosion of “road” novels, beginning with On the Road, in which Cassady—renamed Dean Moriarity— is referred to as “the root, the soul” of Beat. Here’s the way Beat scholar and poet A. Robert Lee puts it in his bracing, comprehensive introduction to the first publication of the letter as a complete book in itself:
