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Neal Leon Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of the 1960s. Cassady published only two short fragments of prose in his lifetime, but exerted considerable intellectual and stylistic influence through his conversation and ...
Apr 25, 2018 · Neal Cassady met Jack Kerouac as a young man, but never imagined the influence he would have over him, and other writers of the Beat generation in the years to come.
Neal Cassady. Writer: The Last Time I Committed Suicide. Neal Cassady became the well-spring from which the Beat Generation gushed forth due to his close friendships with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg Born on February 8, 1926 (in the back of a car, according to his own fanciful musings).
Dec 12, 2012 · The elder Neal Cassady introduced his son to a world of dissolute excess, freight-car hopping, and hitchhiking.
May 11, 2010 · Neal Cassady died in the middle of the night alongside the railroad tracks on the outskirts of San Miguel de Allende after leaving a party. It’s been said that he died of exposure, but the cause of death was never quite determined.
Feb 4, 2023 · Neal Cassady, who served as an inspiration to budding artists across several generations, lost his life 55 years ago today.
Neal Cassady. Writer: The Last Time I Committed Suicide. Neal Cassady became the well-spring from which the Beat Generation gushed forth due to his close friendships with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg Born on February 8, 1926 (in the back of a car, according to his own fanciful musings).
Mar 9, 2021 · Neal Cassady was a master at taking the potential in the present moment and making it manifest, being a walking affirmation. He was not waiting for something or someone else to do something, as he was always doing it and showing by example how you could live more intensely in the fleeting present moment.
Dec 14, 2014 · Long before he was Jack Kerouac's muse for "On The Road," the Merry Pranksters' bus driver, and "Cowboy Neal" to the Grateful Dead, Beat literature icon Neal Cassady grew up dirt poor in pre-World...
Nov 19, 2006 · Neal Cassady was certainly born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and definitely grew up in Denver, Colorado, where he lived from the age of two. However, myth and ambivalence...
