Though he never published a book during his life, Neal Cassady was one of the main inspirations for the Beat Generation. He's the basis of the Dean Moriarty character in Jack Kerouac's "On The Road," ...

Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about how they had met in a psychiatric hospital. In the late 1940s ...