The 120-foot long scroll on which Jack Kerouac hammered out the 1957 Beat classic On the Road is coming to auction.

For two decades, Jami Cassady worked to secure her father's place in Beat history, most notably by fighting to publish the ...

In April 1951, Jack Kerouac taped together sheets of tracing paper to avoid the interruption of changing pages, then typed ...

Heather Weintraub, a books and manuscripts specialist at Christie’s, told The Guardian the scroll is unique and hugely important.

Anyone with at least one toe in Jack Kerouac’s waters knows that Beat godhead and energy-spinner Neal Cassady — aka Dean Moriarty of On the Road — grew up on Denver’s skid row, the streetwise ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It's been called the letter that launched a literary genre -- 16,000 amphetamine-fueled, stream-of-consciousness words written by Neal Cassady to his friend Jack Kerouac in 1950.

"The part we're excerpting will show Kerouac and Neal Cassady at a racetrack, and they're partying and gambling," Best Life editor-in-chief Stephen Perrine said Monday. "But they're also talking about ...

For decades, Jack Kerouac’s most famous work has existed in two forms. The book readers know, and the scroll that most people ...

Neal Cassady was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of the 1960s. He served as the model for the character Dean Moriarty in the 1957 ...