Though he never published a book during his life, Neal Cassady was one of the main inspirations for the Beat Generation. He's the basis of the Dean Moriarty character in Jack Kerouac's "On The Road," ...

Readers hoping for a rollicking back-seat hang with Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty will be disappointed. The author, courageously, doesn’t try to make his protagonists enjoyable company ...

In this clip from the documentary, see how Cassady embodied the spirit of Jack Kerouac's iconic character from On the Road Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content ...

The life of young writer Sal Paradise is shaken and ultimately redefined by the arrival of Dean Moriarty, a free-spirited, fearless, fast talking Westerner and his girl, Marylou. Traveling cross ...