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  2. Neal Cassady - Wikipedia

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    Cassady was the model for the character Dean Moriarty in Kerouac's On the Road, and the character "Cody Pomeray" in many of Kerouac's other novels. In the surviving first draft of On the Road, which Kerouac typed on a 120-foot roll of paper specially constructed for that purpose, the story's protagonist's name remains "Neal Cassady". [34]

  3. List of people from Colorado - Wikipedia

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    Neal Cassady (born in Salt Lake City, Utah, raised in Denver) – figure from the Beat Generation, known for being characterized as Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road; Clive Cussler (lived in Arvada and Golden) – novelist, Raise the Titanic, Deep Six [25]

  4. 2025 deaths in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The following notable deaths in the United States occurred in 2025.Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth and subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, year of birth (if known), and reference.

  5. Jack Kerouac - Wikipedia

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    Kerouac refers to this short novel in a letter addressed to Neal Cassady (who is commonly known as the inspiration for the character Dean Moriarty) dated January 10, 1953. The published novel runs over 110 pages, having been reconstituted from six distinct files in the Kerouac archive by Professor Cloutier.

  6. On the Road - Wikipedia

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    On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States.It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use.

  7. Carolyn Cassady - Wikipedia

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    Carolyn Elizabeth Robinson Cassady (April 28, 1923 – September 20, 2013) was an American writer and associated with the Beat Generation through her marriage to Neal Cassady and her friendships with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and other prominent Beat figures. She became a frequent character in the works of Jack Kerouac.

  8. Deaths in August 2013 - Wikipedia

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    Dean Meminger, 65, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Atlanta Hawks). [427] Konstanty Miodowicz, 62, Polish politician, member of the Sejm (since 1997), complications from neurosurgery. [428] Peter Needham, 81, South African cricketer. [429] Vesna Rožič, 26, Slovene chess player, peritoneal cancer. [430]

  9. Gary Snyder - Wikipedia

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    Then, through Ginsberg, Snyder and Kerouac came to know each other. This period provided the materials for Kerouac's novel The Dharma Bums, and Snyder was the inspiration for the novel's main character, Japhy Ryder, in the same way Neal Cassady had inspired Dean Moriarty in On the Road. As the large majority of people in the Beat movement had ...