Neal Cassady

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Beat Generation figure human writer

Neal Cassady was an American writer and charismatic drifter whose freewheeling lifestyle and letters deeply influenced the Beat Generation, most famously inspiring the character Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac’s "On the Road."

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Beat Generation figure → human → writer →
appearsIn	On the Road →
associatedWith	Merry Pranksters →
birthDate	1926-02-08 →
birthPlace	Salt Lake City, Utah, United States →
child	Cathy Cassady → Jami Cassady → John Allen Cassady →
closeFriendOf	Allen Ginsberg → Jack Kerouac → Ken Kesey →
correspondedWith	Allen Ginsberg → Jack Kerouac →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
deathDate	1968-02-04 →
deathPlace	San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico →
education	Denver, Colorado public schools →
familyName	Cassady →
fictionalCounterpartOf	Neal Cassady →
givenName	Neal →
influenced	Allen Ginsberg → Beat literature → Jack Kerouac → Ken Kesey →
inspiredCharacter	Dean Moriarty →
knownFor	charismatic drifter lifestyle → spontaneous prose style in letters →
movement	Beat Generation → counterculture of the 1960s →
name	Neal Cassady →
notableWork	Collected Letters of Neal Cassady → The First Third →
occupation	autobiographer → chauffeur → railroad worker → writer →
raisedIn	Denver, Colorado, United States →
religion	Roman Catholic (background) →
role	bus driver for the Merry Pranksters →
spouse	Carolyn Cassady → Lu Anne Henderson →
subjectOf	Big Sur → On the Road → The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test → Visions of Cody →
traveledOn	Furthur (Merry Pranksters bus) →

Referenced by (10)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Dean Moriarty → On the Road →	inspiredBy
Allen Ginsberg →	associatedWith
Beatniks →	associatedWithPerson
Dean Moriarty →	basedOn
Neal Cassady ("John Allen Cassady") →	child
Neal Cassady ("Cassady") →	familyName
Dean Moriarty →	fictionalCounterpartOf
Beat Generation →	hasNotableMember
Neal Cassady →	name