Though he never published a book during his life, Neal Cassady was one of the main inspirations for the Beat Generation. He's the basis of the Dean Moriarty character in Jack Kerouac's "On The ...

Beat Generation-themed gelato shop moving into Neal Cassady childhood home The shop’s summer opening will celebrate the Beat legend’s formative influence ...

Neal Cassady won’t go away. The wild young man dashing madly down the highways of experience, liberated from conventional restraints and searching for sex and salvation in the American night ...

Neal Cassady created a foundation for the beat generation and inspired free thinkers. Neal Cassady was a charismatic, larger then life character. His charm, manic energy, sexual swagger, and free ...

DENVER (CBS4) - Across Denver a prominent figure of the Beat Movement of the 1950s is being remembered. A library exhibit highlights the life of Neal Cassady, as Denver residents work to bring a ...

Cassady began taking stolen cars farther and eventually was arrested in Los Angeles in 1943 and sent to a youth camp for six months. He soon escaped and returned to Denver; more arrests followed.

NEAL Cassady was one of the most prominent members of the Beat literary movement in the 1950s and ’60s, although he never published a book. Instead, he acted as a muse to Beat leaders such as ...

While Cassady may have been a genius—or just a genie—of American experience, Kerouac was a genius of words. So Neal didn’t write (much) about Jack; Jack wrote about Neal.

As the wife of Neal Cassady, Carolyn Cassady provided a measure of stability to him, Jack Kerouac and other icons of the Beat generation.

Forty-three years after the death of Beat Generation icon Neal Cassady, Denver is lauding its most famous prodigal son as one of its favorite ones. Friday marks the Neal Cassady Birthday Bash ...