Neal Cassady

Neal Cassady
Born	Neal Leon Cassady (1926-02-08)February 8, 1926 Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Died	February 4, 1968(1968-02-04) (aged 41) San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Occupation	Author, poet
Genre	Beat poetry
Notable works	The First Third
Spouse	LuAnne Henderson (1945–1948; annulled), Carolyn Cassady (1948–1963; divorced),[1]
Partner	Diane Hansen (1950–?), Anne Murphy (?–1968)
Children	5[2]

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

Cassady published only two short fragments of prose in his lifetime, but exerted considerable intellectual and stylistic influence through his conversation and correspondence. Letters, poems, and an unfinished autobiographical novel have been published since his death.

He was prominently featured as himself in the "scroll" (first draft) version of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road, and served as the model for the character Dean Moriarty in the 1957 version of that book. In many of Kerouac's later books, Cassady is represented by the character Cody Pomeray. Cassady also appeared in Allen Ginsberg's poems, and in several other works of literature by other writers.