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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 ...
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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).
- February 8, 1926
- February 4, 1968
Neal Cassady was one of the most prominent personalities of the post-World War II literary movement - 'Beat Generation’. He had a rough childhood, after he lost his mother at the age of ten, which left him under the uncaring eyes of his alcoholic father.
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.
Dec 12, 2012 · His enduring aesthetic legacy was an incorrigibly hedonistic life that his friend Kerouac and sometime lover Allen Ginsberg transmuted into art. To them, Cassady was a revelation, the consummate...
- Scott Staton
Dec 14, 2014 · The clock on the Daniels and Fisher tower woke young Neal Cassady while staying at a downtown flophouse. Photographed with a Hipstamatic filter on Dec. 14, 2014. A still-standing Denver...
Mar 29, 2004 · Neal Cassady was a catalyst, the Holy Spark that lit the fire of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and the Beat Movement. A huge almost forgotten piece of American history that saw a new post war social and cultural consciousness being born on New York's Lower East Side, San Francisco North Beach, and the Road in between.
- William Plummer
