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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 .
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.
Jan 8, 2024 · Left: Neal Cassady sitting in the upstairs parlor at the Grateful Dead’s home at 710 Ashbury in San Francisco, CA in June of 1967. Cassady had already become a legendary beat icon when Jack Kerouac recreated Cassady as Dean Moriaty in his groundbreaking novel “On The Road.”
Nov 3, 2013 · Inspired by Cassady’s companionship, Kerouac hammered out the first draft of his most famous book on a single, long scroll of paper between April 2 – 22, 1951; a novel he’d been working on in one form or another since at least 1948.
In the film Across the Universe (2007), the character Dr. Robert, played by Bono, is said to have been inspired by Neal Cassady. [28]
An introduction to the mid-century countercultural poets who helped define a generation. Bob Donlon (Rob Donnelly), Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, Robert LaVigne, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti (left to right) stand outside City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, 1956. Photo by © Allen Ginsberg/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images.
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Jul 9, 2020 · Cassady died in Mexico from sun exposure and congestion shortly before his 42nd birthday. On October 1, 1969, less than a year after Cassady’s death, Kerouac died of an alcohol-related illness at the age of 46.
