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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]
Oct 5, 2018 · His life, or so legend tells us, was one of action, not thought. 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.
Apr 25, 2018 · Neal Cassady met Jack Kerouac as a young man, but never imagined the influence he would have over him, and other writers of the Beat generation in the years to come.
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.
Nov 23, 2014 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — It's been called the letter that launched a literary genre — 16,000 amphetamine-fueled, stream-of-consciousness words written by Neal Cassady to his friend Jack Kerouac in...
Nov 25, 2014 · The famous “Joan Anderson” letter from Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac has been found in Southern California. Cassady apparently wrote the letter to Kerouac in a drug-fueled, sex-crazed haze on...
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:
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