Neal Cassady died in Mexico in 1968 at the age of 42. Kerouac, whose novel “On the Road” and other works signaled a new direction in American literature and earned him the title of the ...

“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 ...