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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 was one of the most prominent figures of the Beat Generation despite having never published a piece of work during his lifetime. Although his list of works includes only personal letters and an unfinished manuscript, his lifestyle and close friendship with several members of the Beat crowd, most notably Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, helped shaped the work of an entire ...
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, rumbling-and ...
Dec 12, 2012 · Of course, Neal Cassady was no Proust—he was a loquacious fool with a madness for living. Yet his exploits continue to fascinate, and words are the reason. He presented an extreme embodiment of ...
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Feb 4, 2023 · Born Neal Leon Cassady on February 8th, 1926 in Salt Lake City, UT, Cassady spent much of his early life on the streets with his father. A child of the depression born to a louse of a father, the ...
Dec 14, 2014 · Neal Cassady, left, and Jack Kerouac. Long before he was Jack Kerouac's muse for "On The Road," the Merry Pranksters' bus driver, and "Cowboy Neal" to the Grateful Dead, Beat literature icon Neal ...
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Oct 5, 2018 · 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.
