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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]
Two or three months later, perhaps understandably in the circumstances, Lu Anne left him, following which Neal successfully had their marriage annulled. Carolyn and Neal subsequently got married in April 1948; and their first child, Cathleen Joanne, was born that September.
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.
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.
Soon, he became a member of the ‘Beat Generation', a community of writers who came to eminence in the 1950s, post the World War II. Personal Life & Legacy. In October 1945, he marred, LuAnne Henderson, a fifteen year old. Their marriage was annulled in 1948.
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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During this period, Carolyn and Neal began their love affair, though at the time he was still married to his first wife, Lu Anne Henderson. In August 1947, Carolyn was shocked to find Lu Anne, Neal, and Allen naked in bed together. [ 6 ]
