Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jami Cassady holds the book "The Joan Anderson Letter: The Holy Grail of the Beat Generation," in her home in Santa Cruz on Dec. 8 ...

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 ...

Octogenarian musician/musicologist David Amram’s ties to the Beats hold strong, especially in San Francisco, where jazz and poetry intersected, and in some ways, he’s one of the last grand old men of ...

Celebrating what would have been the 100th birthday of Bay Area icon Neal Cassady on Jan. 17 at the Berkeley Art House is going to be a psychedelically tinged evening of creatives, musicians, ...

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.

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. Upon ...

A look at Neal Cassady, who was an icon of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s, perhaps best known as the inspiration for the character of Dean Moriarty in Jack ...

A look at Neal Cassady, who was an icon of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s, perhaps best known as the inspiration for the character of Dean Moriarty in Jack ...