Neal Cassady EstateNeal Cassady as a young man. Neal Cassady never published a book in his life. Yet he’s considered one of the most prominent figures of the Beat Generation — and a crucial ...

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 between two brick houses, was a two-chair ...

Neal Cassady, inspiration for the Beat Generation, was one of the most powerful literary and pop-culture figures to emerge in the twentieth century. He spent most of his early life in Denver ...

His father, also named Neal, was a barber by trade and the home doubled as his shop in 1930, Cassady writes: “Finally, in last month of this hectic year, Neal got a two-chair shop near the ...

Mark Bliesener is one of the Denverites behind the effort to build a statue of Neal Cassady and gift it to the city. When speaking with Bliesener, I immediately gather from the elation and energy ...

Neal Cassady won’t go away. The wild young man dashing madly down the highways of experience, liberated from conventional restraints and searching for sex and salvation in the American night ...

One night just isn’t enough to celebrate the legacy of Neal Cassady in Denver. This year’s sixth annual Neal Cassady Birthday Bash is back at the Mercury Cafe, but this year there are a ...

LOS ANGELES — It’s been called the letter that launched a literary genre — 16,000 amphetamine-fueled, stream-of-consciousness words written by Neal Cassady to his friend Jack Kerouac in 1950.

What she chose, however, was marriage to Neal Cassady, the fast-talking, hard-living, womanizing wanderer who would be immortalized as Dean Moriarty in “On the Road,” Jack Kerouac’s 1957 ...

A library exhibit highlights the life of Neal Cassady, as Denver residents work to bring a permanent monument in his honor to a park in the city. Inside the Denver Public Library on 13th Avenue ...

A portrait of Kerouac’s close friend Neal Cassady, Moriarty is supposed to be irrepressibly talkative and dynamic, a model of hyperactivity. Aside from occasional eruptions of energy ...