his relationship with his "Grand Uncle" Robert Graves, is his first novel.One of his top nine muses, as told to the Guardian:
Neal Cassady and Jack KerouacRead about another muse on the list.
It was the over-excited, fulsome, improvised prose in a letter from Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac that inspired Kerouac's benzedrine-fuelled nights of automatic writing, and the manuscript which would eventually become On the Road. Cassady was also the star of that novel, the instigator of the road trips that gave it its name and (as many say), of Kerouac's own hidden passion. Allen Ginsberg, meanwhile, made no attempt to hide his lust for Cassady, calling him "the secret hero" of his own poems.
--Marshal Zeringue
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