Full name: Neal Cassady: The Fast Life of a Beat Hero

Authors: David Sandison, Graham Vickers Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781556526152 1556526156

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. A charismatic, funny, articulate, and formidably intelligent man, Cassady was also a compulsive womanizer who lived life on the edge. His naturalistic, conversational writing style inspired Kerouac, who lifted a number of passages verbatim and unaccredited from Cassady's letters for significant episodes in On the Road. Drawing on a wealth of new research and full cooperation from central figures in his life--including Carolyn Cassady and Ken Kesey--this account captures Cassady's unique blend of inspired lunacy and deep spirituality. Similar books: Jack Kerouac by Steve Turner Desolate Angel by Dennis McNally Jack's Book by Barry Gifford Jack Kerouac by Tom Clark Memory Babe by Gerald Nicosia William Burroughs by Barry Miles Kerouac by Ann Charters Gentleman Junkie by Graham Caveney Ginsberg by Barry Miles I Celebrate Myself by Bill Morgan Subterranean Kerouac by Ellis Amburn Literary Outlaw by Ted Morgan Naked Angels by John Tytell Off the Road by Carolyn Cassady The Wright Brothers by David McCullough With William Burroughs by Victor Bockris Mobituaries by Mo Rocca Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy