Sometimes overlooked by those chronicling the Beat Generation, Neal Cassady was the inspirational nucleus of what would become the counterculture movement, inspiring memorable literary characters like ...

Anyone with at least one toe in Jack Kerouac’s waters knows that Beat godhead and energy-spinner Neal Cassady — aka Dean Moriarty of On the Road — grew up on Denver’s skid row, the streetwise ...

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.