![]() ![]() ![]() She first met a then-married Neal Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg while she was at the University of Denver getting a master’s degree in fine arts and theater arts. They prefer to believe the other version.”Ĭarolyn Cassady was born in Lansing, Mich., in 1923 and grew up in Nashville, Tenn. “But people just don’t seem to want to hear. “I’ve tried to share my memories,” she told Britain’s Telegraph newspaper in 2012. The memoir, which was rereleased in 2007 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Kerouac’s seminal novel, was one of many attempts Cassady made to correct what she saw as myths about the Beat Generation and misrepresentation of her husband. She was also a close friend of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, and chronicled her experiences with the three in the memoir “Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg,” published in 1990. ![]() Cause of death was not immediately clear.Ĭassady was married to Neal Cassady - a central character in the Beat generation and the basis of the character Dean Moriarty in Kerouac’s “On the Road” - for around 20 years. Cimino and her husband are longtime family friends of Cassady and her children. Longtime friend Estelle Cimino, co-owner of the Beat Museum in San Francisco, said Saturday that Carolyn Cassady died Friday in a hospital near her home in Bracknell, southeast England. LONDON - Carolyn Cassady, a writer who was married to Jack Kerouac’s travel companion and a lover of the famous Beat author, has died. ![]()
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