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Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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 version of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road. In many of Kerouac's later books, Cassady is represented by the character Cody Pomeray. Cassady also appeared in Allen Ginsberg's poems, and in several…
Known for
- Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place — Self2011
- Love Always, Carolyn — Self (archive footage)2011
- Cassady in the Backhouse — Himself1972
- The Acid Test — Self1966
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Key facts
- Born
- Neal Leon Cassady , ( 1926-02-08 ) February 8, 1926, Salt Lake City, Utah , U.S.
- Died
- February 4, 1968 (1968-02-04) (aged 41), San Miguel de Allende , Mexico
- Occupation
- Author poet
- Genre
- Beat poetry
- Notable works
- The First Third
- Spouse
- LuAnne Henderson (1945–1948; annulled), Carolyn Cassady (1948–1963; divorced)
- Partner
- Diane Hansen (1950–?), Anne Murphy (?–1968)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Salt Lake City
- Place of death
- San Miguel de Allende
- Spouse
- Carolyn Cassady
- Occupation
- poet
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Movement
- Beat Generation
- Image
- Neal .jpg
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- date of birth
- 1926-02-08
- date of death
- 1968-02-04
- name in native language
- Neal Cassady
- influenced by
- William S. Burroughs
- manner of death
- accidental death
- cause of death
- kidney failure
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- Harry Ransom Center
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- Neal Cassady
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Encyclopedic overview
Neal Leon Cassady (February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968) was an American writer who was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of the 1960s.
Cassady published only two short fragments of prose in his lifetime, but exerted considerable intellectual and stylistic influence through his conversation and correspondence. Letters, poems, and an unfinished autobiographical novel have been published since his death.
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