Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jami Cassady holds the book "The Joan Anderson Letter: The Holy Grail of the Beat Generation," in her home in Santa Cruz on Dec. 8 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... He only lived there for a year, but Beat Generation muse Neal Cassady left his mark on 2558 Champa St. in Denver. The 400-square-foot building, sandwiched ...

This interview originally aired Dec 15, 2014. The hero of “On the Road,” Jack Kerouac’s groundbreaking 1957 novel, is a prolific car thief and charmer named Dean Moriarty. Kerouac based the character ...

An excerpt of Neal Cassady‘s “ Joan Anderson Letter” is enough to leave even a casual student of the Beat Generation with the indelible impression that Jack Kerouac gave it a read and never looked ...

This in-depth biography--the first to explore the ups and downs of Neal Cassady--takes a look at the man who achieved immortality as Dean Moriarty, the central character in Jack Kerouac's On the Road.

Neal Cassady created a foundation for the beat generation and inspired free thinkers. Neal Cassady was a charismatic, larger then life character. His charm, manic energy, sexual swagger, and free ...

Beat icon Neal Cassady, who once wandered Denver’s skid row as a kid, would have been 84 tomorrow. It’s hard to imagine the motor-mouthed, free-living inspiration for Jack Kerouac’s Dean Moriarty ...

DENVER (CBS4) - Across Denver a prominent figure of the Beat Movement of the 1950s is being remembered. A library exhibit highlights the life of Neal Cassady, as Denver residents work to bring a ...

A portrait of Beat Generation writer Neal Cassady (Tate Donovan), who was the basis for Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" and drove Ken Kesey's psychedelic bus as part of Kesey's Merry ...

Carolyn Cassady (1923-2013), wife of Neal Cassady—the legendary beat-generation hero immortalized as Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and later in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid ...