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Neal Leon Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of the 1960s. Cassady published only two short fragments of prose in his lifetime, but exerted considerable intellectual and stylistic influence through his conversation and ...
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.
Mar 11, 2022 · “The time has come for me to write a full confession of my life to you,” Jack Kerouac typed thunderously to Neal Cassady in December 1950, in the first of a sequence of massive,...
Dec 12, 2012 · Cassady was a complicated soul whose creative energies found release through an immoderate enthusiasm for sex, automobiles, and drugs. His enduring aesthetic legacy was an incorrigibly hedonistic...
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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.
Neal Cassady was one of the most prominent personalities of the post-World War II literary movement - 'Beat Generation’. He had a rough childhood, after he lost his mother at the age of ten, which left him under the uncaring eyes of his alcoholic father.
After the second world war, things changed fast in America. Legions of middle-class families abandoned the big cities and built comfortable lives in the suburbs. Few individuals seem prepared to break the chrome-clad, dollar-stamped mould. But one that did was Neal Cassady.