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 cultural movement known as the Beat Generation. In the late...

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 literary quality, and the start of an autobiography, his...

Neal Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was an icon of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s, perhaps best known for being characterized as Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's classic On the...

My mother went to East High School in Denver, Colorado. So, for a while, did Neal Cassady--Cassady, one of the dedicatees, along with Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, of Allen Ginsberg's Howl, in which he is called "N.C., secret hero of these poems."...

On June 23, 1953, an aspiring poet employed as a copyboy for the New York World Telegram wrote a long letter to an old friend in San Jose. The letter ends by reproducing a telegraph sent to President Eisenhower protesting what David Caute...

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 title "King of the Beats."However, there are more than a...

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 they kind of have a sense of adventure about them," she says. "They walk inside,...