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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 correspondence.
Apr 25, 2018 · Neal Cassady was one of the most prominent figures of the Beat Generation despite having never published a piece of work during his lifetime.
Neal Cassady. Writer: The Last Time I Committed Suicide. Neal Cassady became the well-spring from which the Beat Generation gushed forth due to his close friendships with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg Born on February 8, 1926 (in the back of a car, according to his own fanciful musings).
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.
Dec 12, 2012 · The elder Neal Cassady introduced his son to a world of dissolute excess, freight-car hopping, and hitchhiking.
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,...
Feb 4, 2023 · Neal Cassady, who served as an inspiration to budding artists across several generations, lost his life 55 years ago today.
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.
Feb 1, 2010 · Neal Cassady, the model for Jack Kerouac's character of Dean Moriarty in On the Road, spent time in the Mexican city of San Miguel de Allende, where he mysteriously died.
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.
