Neal Cassady inspired Jack Kerouac in other, profound ways as well. In December 1950, he wrote Kerouac an 18-page letter which recounted his wild love affair with a woman named “Joan.” ...

Neal Cassady, left, and Jack Kerouac. Long before he was Jack Kerouac's muse for "On The Road," the Merry Pranksters' bus driver, and "Cowboy Neal" to the Grateful Dead, Beat literature icon Neal ...

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 ...

The Neal Cassady project, however, allows him to channel his interest in the 1950s and ’60s into a project of his. “I’m interested in honoring and remembering historical figures that were ...

Neal Cassady (l.) and Jack Kerouac pose together in Chuck Workman’s ‘The Source.’ (Carolyn Cassady) Front and center of this new mad swirl is Kerouac’s famous muse, Neal Cassady.

Neal’s wife Carolyn wrote one called “Off the Road,” which offers a woman’s perspective on a largely male cultural movement — and which is often not flattering to Cassady or Kerouac.

Neal Cassady, who grew up in Denver and became a major figure of the Beat Generation before his death in 1968, will be honored Friday from 8 to 10 p.m. with a bash at the Mercury Cafe, ...

The last time Jami Cassady Ratto saw her father alive was in Scotts Valley, at the legendary old performance venue called The Barn. She was only 18 and her boyfriend was playing in a band called ...

Neal Cassady died in Mexico in 1968 at the age of 42. Kerouac, whose novel “On the Road” and other works signaled a new direction in American literature and earned him the title of the ...

The actor tells THR about the dreams of his youth and clears up some misconceptions about Neal Cassady, the man he plays in the long-anticipated film. 'On the Road': Garrett Hedlund's Unlikely 10 ...