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 ...

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 ...

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, sent ...

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, yet few ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An 18-page letter written by Beat-era icon Neal Cassady that transformed Jack Kerouac's writing style will be auctioned off this month as the highlight of a collection of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A 1950 Neal Cassady letter that inspired Jack Kerouac's spontaneous style in "On the Road" is heading to auction where it's expected to bring up to $600,000. Christie's is offering the ...

Neal Cassady, the man largely responsible for the Beat movement and the inspiration for many literary works, was famous among his peers for his energy and charisma. Bob Vila, of the “This Old House” ...

Neal Cassady was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of the 1960s. He served as the model for the character Dean Moriarty in the 1957 ...