SAN FRANCISCO | A longtime friend of Carolyn Cassady has confirmed the writer who was the former wife of Beatnik Neal Cassady and lover of Jack Kerouac has died. She was 90 years old. Estelle Cimino, ...

"I keep falling in love with my mother. I don't want to hurt her. Of all people to hurt. Everytime I see her she's grown older. But her uniform always amazes me for its Dutch simplicity, the doll she ...

The Beat generation formed a literary boys’ club that, starting in the late 1940s, tirelessly mythologized its own heroic quest for kicks and nirvana. But that collective self-portrait has begun to ...

Carolyn A. Cassady, age 62, of Harrison, passed away on Saturday, April 2, 2011 at Mt. Clemens General Hospital. She was born July 21, 1948 in Detroit, Mich., a daughter of Ralph and Marie (Burliegh) ...

Kirsten Dunst has said that she feels "really honoured" to be in the first major movie adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On The Road. The Melancholia actress plays Camille in Walter Salles's upcoming film, ...

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.