However, the first novel does show Cassady as frankly promiscuous.

Considered the first " Beat " novel, Go depicted events in his life with his friends Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg.

He seeks respite first in solitude in the Big Sur cabin, then in a relationship with Billie, the mistress of his longtime friend Cody Pomeray ( Neal Cassady ).

Although Ginsberg referred to many of his friends and acquaintances ( including Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Peter Orlovsky, Lucien Carr, and Herbert Huncke ), the primary emotional drive was his sympathy for Carl Solomon, to whom it was dedicated ; he met Solomon in a mental institution and became friends with him.

In 1941, the 15-year old Cassady met Justin W. Brierly, a prominent Denver educator.

In 1947, Cassady and his wife moved to New York City, where they met Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg at Columbia University through Hal Chase, another protégé of Justin W. Brierly's.

Carolyn Robinson met Cassady in 1946 while she worked in Denver, Colorado, as a teaching assistant.

Novelist Robert Stone, who met the bus on its arrival in New York, has written that those accompanying Kesey on the trip were Neal Cassady ( described by Stone as " the world's greatest driver, who could roll a joint while backing a 1937 Packard onto the lip of the Grand Canyon "), Ken Babbs (" fresh from the Nam, full of radio nomenclature, and with a command voice that put cops to flight "), Jane Burton (" a pregnant young philosophy professor who declined no challenges "), Page Browning (" a Hell's Angel candidate "), George Walker, Sandy Lehmann-Haupt (" dis-MOUNT "), Mike Hagen (" Mal Function "), Ron Bevirt (" Hassler "), Chuck Kesey, Dale Kesey, John Babbs, Steve Lambrecht and Paula Sundstren (" aka Gretchin Fetchin, Slime Queen ").

Kerouac met Neal Cassady, who would become Dean Moriarty, in December 1946 and began his road adventures in 1947 while writing what would become The Town and the City.

In early 1964, Garcia met Neal Cassady, who introduced her to Ken Kesey and his friends, one of whom gave her the name " Mountain Girl ".

The narrative takes place in the years 1947 to 1950, is full of Americana, and marks a specific era in jazz history, “ somewhere between its Charlie Parker Ornithology period and another period that began with Miles Davis .” The novel is largely autobiographical, Sal being the alter ego of the author and Dean standing for Neal Cassady.

# It illustrates an educational article about the author of the book, Neal Cassady, for which the book itself is also a significant topic.

# The image is historically significant in that it depicts Cassady with his friend and fellow author, Jack Kerouac, and is the image chosen as the cover of Cassady's published autobiography.

Members included Beat Generation hero Neal Cassady, Ken Babbs, Carolyn Adams ( aka Mountain Girl and Carolyn Garcia ), Stewart Brand, Del Close, Paul Foster, George Walker, Sandy Lehmann-Haupt and others.

Ginsberg was friends with Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, a group of which Cassady was a member, which also included members of the Grateful Dead.

The Beat movement led on the West Coast to the activities of such groups as the Merry Pranksters ( led, according to Grateful Dead historian Dennis McNally, not by novelist Ken Kesey, but by hipster and driver Neal Cassady ) and the entire San Francisco pop music scene, in which the implications of sexual bohemianism were advanced in a variety of ways by the hippies.

Notable members of the group include Kesey's best friend Ken Babbs, Stewart Brand, Neal Cassady, Del Close, Paul Foster, Carolyn Garcia ( also known as Mountain Girl ), the Grateful Dead, Wavy Gravy, Paul Krassner, and Kentucky Fab Five authors Ed McClanahan ( also known as " Captain Kentucky ") and Gurney Norman.

Cassady drove Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters on the bus named " Further " and later drove bus for the Grateful Dead.

Helms is linked in San Francisco lore with Graham, the Diggers ( theater ), Emmett Grogan, Ken Kesey, Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Neal Cassady, Kenneth Rexroth, Ralph J. Gleason, and others.

One of the main transitional features between the beat scene and the hippies was the Merry Pranksters ' journey across the United States with Neal Cassady and Ken Kesey, in a psychedelically-painted school bus named Further.

The escapades of Kesey and the Merry Pranksters are documented in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which describes the wildly painted school bus, ' Furthur ', driven by Neal Cassady, who had been the hyperkinetic driver in Jack Kerouac's On the Road.

Cassady took her to La Honda, California, Kesey's base of operations, where she quickly joined the inner circle of Pranksters and became romantically involved with Kesey, having a daughter by him named Sunshine.

Following an arrest during 1958 for offering to share a small amount of marijuana with an undercover agent at a San Francisco nightclub, Cassady served a sentence at San Quentin State Prison.

She eventually learns to tolerate ( and perhaps accept ) Cassady as a member of her squad ; however, this acceptance does not seem to last long and in the seventeenth season finale " The Family Hour ", Van Buren berates the detective for her inability to keep her temper in check and suggests that Cassady has no future in the 27th Squad.

Neal Cassady later becomes a chosen one of Azathoth, gaining immense powers to be used against Cthulhu in the process.

Cassady continued his criminal activities, however, and was repeatedly arrested from 1942 to 1944 ; on at least one of these occasions, he was released by law enforcement into Brierly's safekeeping.

Prince owns several copies of On the Road by Jack Kerouac, including one inscribed to Kerouac's mother, one famously read on The Steve Allen Show, the original proof copy of the book and an original galley, as well as the copy owned by Neal Cassady ( the Dean Moriarty character in the book ), with Cassady ’ s signature and marginal notes.

Holmes was more an observer and documenter of beat characters like Ginsberg, Cassady and Kerouac than one of them.

The title is consistent with that of one of Kerouac's other character-studies, Visions of Cody, which centers on his experiences with Neal Cassady.

With Cassady at the wheel of a school bus named Further, the Merry Pranksters traveled across the United States to celebrate the publication of Kesey's novel Sometimes a Great Notion and to visit the 1964 World's Fair in New York City.

Cassady appears at length in a documentary film about the Merry Pranksters and their cross-country trip, Magic Trip, directed by Alex Gibney, released on 5 August 2011.

Neal Cassady was introduced to the group in 1947, and had a number of significant effects.

Cassady impressed the group with the free-flowing style of his letters, and Kerouac cited them as a key influence on his spontaneous prose style.

Notable Beat Generation women who have been published include Joyce Johnson ; Carolyn Cassady ; Hettie Jones ; Joanne Kyger ; Harriet Sohmers Zwerling ; Diane DiPrima ; and Ruth Weiss, who also made films.

Thomas Jane plays Neal Cassady, a beatnik who is partly responsible for bringing together many of the famous beat generation figures.

On the Road is known as a semi-autobiographic story, and Kerouac admitted himself being Sal Paradise, when journalists asked him if he was Dean Moriarty, who was actually inspired by another Beat hero and a close friend of Kerouac, Neal Cassady.

Van Buren had a " hand-picked " replacement for Fontana who was much more experienced than Cassady.

He is partnered with Nina Cassady ( Milena Govich ), over the objections of Van Buren, who thinks Cassady is too inexperienced to be a homicide detective.

Neal Cassady passed around the wine jug and a collection plate.

The violinist Yehudi Menuhim lived there as a boy ; the actresses Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland ( sisters ) were graduates of Los Gatos High School, John Steinbeck wrote Grapes of Wrath there, and Beat hero Neal Cassady lived there in the 1950s.

Neal Leon Cassady ( February 8, 1926 – February 4, 1968 ) was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s.