Research Catalog

Title

Collected letters, 1944-1967 / Neal Cassady ; introduction by Carolyn Cassady ; edited by Dave Moore.

Author

Cassady, Neal.

Publication

New York : Penguin Books, 2004.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Moore, Dave, 1941-
• Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. wid

Description

xxii, 490 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Neal Cassady is best remembered today as Jack Kerouac's muse and the basis for the character Dean Moriarty in Kerouac's classic On the Road, and as one of the merriest of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, the driver of the psychedelic bus Further, immortalized in Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." "This definitive new collection brings together for the first time more than two hundred letters to Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, and other Beat generation luminaries, as well as an important selection between Neal and his wife, Carolyn. These letters (for the most part previously unpublished) cover Neal's life between the ages of eighteen and forty-one and finish just a few months before his death in February 1968. This collection presents the real Neal Cassady - raw and uncut."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Correspondence. Selections

Alternative Title

Correspondence.

Subjects

• 1900-1999
• Records and correspondence
• Authors, American > 20th century > Correspondence
• Beats (Persons)
• Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969 > Correspondence
• Cassady, Carolyn > Correspondence
• Cassady, Neal > Correspondence
• Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997 > Correspondence

Genre/Form

Records and correspondence

Note

• A duplicate copy of this title was part of the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection, but was not retained.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-476) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1944-45 -- 1947 -- 1948 -- 1949 -- 1950 -- 1951 -- 1952 -- 1953 -- 1954 -- 1955 -- 1956 -- 1958 -- 1959 -- 1960 -- 1961 -- 1963 -- 1964 -- 1965 -- 1966 -- 1967.

ISBN

0142002178

LCCN

2003061687^^

OCLC

• 52948971
• SCSB-10883962

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library