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Bookmark or Share- Neal Cassady - WikipediaNeal 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 ...
- Neal Cassady, The Man Who Inspired Jack Kerouac's "On The Road"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.
- Neal Cassady – 50 Years Since His Death - BeatdomToday is the fiftieth anniversary of Neal Cassady’s death. The Beat Generation icon is best-known as the inspiration for Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. However, although that portrayal of him will forever remain the definitive one, there was more to this man than Kerouac’s classic presents.
- Neal Cassady - Rotten LibraryThey’d hop a plane or drive down the coast, just to be balled by the fabulous Neal Cassady. In February of 1968, Cassady, the man who had given both the Beat and the Hippie movements their dynamic sense of direction, foundered and lost his own way.
- Neal Cassady - The Swinging SixtiesNeal Cassady (1926-1968) was an American socialite, railroad employee, some-time poet and writer, and serial convict, who was a close associate of prominent figures of the Beat Generation such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Ken Kesey (q. v.) and is credited as a major inspiration for Kerouac’s writing style.
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