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Neal Cassady (2007), a biographical film focused mostly on the Merry Prankster years and stars Tate Donovan as Neal, Amy Ryan as Carolyn Cassady, Chris Bauer as Kesey, and Glenn Fitzgerald as Kerouac; Noah Buschel wrote and directed the film, which deals primarily with how Neal became trapped by his fictional alter-ego, Dean Moriarty. The ...
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.
Dec 12, 2012 · The elder Neal Cassady introduced his son to a world of dissolute excess, freight-car hopping, and hitchhiking.
Feb 4, 2023 · Neal Cassady was a literary and cultural icon who inspired Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey and the Grateful Dead. He died on February 4th, 1968, after a lifetime of wild adventures on the road and a tragic end in Mexico.
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,...
Mar 9, 2021 · Learn about Neal Cassady, the real-life Dean Moriarty of On The Road, and his influence on Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation. Discover his lost letter to Joan Anderson and his prison letters to his family, now reprinted by Black Spring Press.
Learn about the life and legacy of Neal Cassady, the inspiration for Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" and a key figure of the Beat Generation and the psychedelic movement. Find out how he influenced literature, music, and culture with his driving skills, sexual adventures, and spontaneous prose.
