(George Nikitin/AP) Carolyn Cassady, the lover of Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac ... She soon discovered that Neal’s friend Kerouac was in love with Neal — and later, that Neal was ...

If you’re hung up, you can’t love, or care for others. W. Why are so many members of the Beat Generation bums and tramps? L. Oh, you see, Christ says go out and find the bums . . .Find the ...

But the Beat Generation will always be defined by its slouching poster boy, Jack Kerouac. And the publication on Sept. 5, 1957, of "On the Road" will always be the Beat movement's watershed moment.