Joan Anderson Letter

Following the recent news of the resurfacing of the near-legendary “Joan Anderson Letter” from Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac, which gave us On The Road in its current form, Profiles in History, the auction house selling the letter, is hosting a media event on the morning of December 1st at “The Heart of The Beat Generation’s […]

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An Associated Press report has highlighted the auctioning of an unique literary document that allegedly jumpstarted the development of the U.S. Beat Generation and altered the course of American literature forever – “Neal Cassady’s infamous ‘Joan Anderson Letter,’ written to American literary revolutionary Jack Kerouac on December 17, 1950,” as the press release from auction house […]

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