![]() On a gambling kick, Neal persuaded Natalie Jackson, a girl he lived with in San Francisco during the late 1950s, to pose as Carolyn and draw out the family savings, which he lost at the racetrack.įrom almost the moment of their meeting, Neal was unfaithful to Carolyn, sometimes more than once a day. Humorous and level-headed about most things, she had a blind spot where Neal was concerned. Kerouac's novel On the Road (1957) was based on the cross-country dashes he made from New York with Neal (who became the wild-man hero Dean Moriarty in the novel) and Henderson (who became Marylou, in the passenger seat in the book). After Carolyn relocated to San Francisco, Neal followed her. Soon after they had begun their relationship, Carolyn crept into Neal's flat one morning to give him a surprise, only to find him asleep with Henderson on one side and Ginsberg on the other. ![]() He also had a teenage bride, LuAnne Henderson. ![]() ![]() When she met Neal Cassady in Colorado in 1947, she was a student of theatre design at the University of Denver, having attended a smart east-coast ladies' college he was a car thief, an energetic seducer of women and occasionally men, and possessed of a restless, manic energy that had already bewitched Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. In her book Off the Road (1990), Carolyn Cassady, who has died aged 90, charted her extraordinary life with the Beat writers Neal Cassady, her husband, and Jack Kerouac, her lover.Ĭassady was an unlikely, and in many ways an unwilling, Beat icon herself. ![]()
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