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1. He Inspired Everyone—Except Himself. 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. He was Allen Ginsberg’s plaything and Tom Wolfe’s muse.
Neal Cassady, who died in 1968, was an intoxicating literary protagonist, but as a husband he was a piece of work. Much of their marriage, until their divorce in 1963, involved his running...
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 4, 2019 · When interviewed later, the physician stated that he was unable to give an accurate report because Cassady was a foreigner and there were drugs involved. “Exposure” is commonly cited as his cause of death, although his widow ( Carolyn Cassady) believes he may have died of renal failure.”.
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.
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.
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Sep 28, 2013 · In her book Off the Road (1990), Carolyn Cassady, who has died aged 90, charted her extraordinary life with the Beat writers Neal Cassady, her husband, and Jack Kerouac, her lover....
