Neal Cassady

Neal Cassady,became famous as Dean Morarity, the character Kerouac based on him in his seminal 1957 novel "On the Road". On a trip to New York City in 1946, he encountered Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg on the campus of Columbia University, a meeting many consider the beginning of the Beat movement.

Neal Cassady,became famous as Dean Morarity, the character Kerouac based on him in his seminal 1957 novel "On the Road". On a trip to New York City in 1946, he encountered Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg on the campus of Columbia University, a meeting many consider the beginning of the Beat movement. See less