Neal Cassady
(1926–1968)
American poet, autobiographer, and letter writer.
Cassady is widely considered the muse of the Beat Generation. Though Cassady did write poetry, extensive letters of...
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A writer solely by virtue of his enormous will to become one, whose output consisted chiefly of letters to his friends, Neal Cassady was one of the people most responsible for the literary and cultura...
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Beat writer Jack Kerouac usually set out without a map, plan or even a purpose. So tracking exactly where the author stopped off in his travels wouldn't be encouraged by the man who disliked the ti...
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Manya Callahan, manager of the Barnes & Noble Downtown store, sees them all the time, young and old, looking for books by Lowell's most famous citizen."They're usually wearing backpacks and the...
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