“It was pure love,” Jami said.Ĭassady was both an “eager participant” in the Beat Generation’s wild adventures and a “dissenting adult,” said The New York Times. But her daughter Jami said she objected to being seen as a mere sexual plaything for the two men. In San Francisco, Kerouac moved in with the Cassadys and, at Neal’s urging, began an affair with Carolyn. That epic trip westward later formed the basis of Kerouac’s era-defining 1957 novel On the Road-with Carolyn immortalized as the “whining wife” Camille. Cassady left his wife and infant daughter behind and used their life savings to buy a car to drive to New York City, collect Kerouac, and come back. “The honeymoon bliss lasted maybe six months,” said the San Francisco Chronicle. She didn’t realize that Kerouac was in love with Cassady, however, or that Cassady was in love with Ginsberg-“a fact that came to light when she found Neal, LuAnne, and Ginsberg in bed together.” She broke up with Cassady and moved to San Francisco, but he followed her there and convinced her to marry him in 1948. She was studying theater in Denver when she met Cassady, a fast-talking car thief and hustler “with literary ambitions.” She began dating him even though he was married to a 16-year-old, LuAnne Henderson, and she soon fell in with his circle of exuberant, unconventional friends. Carolyn Robinson was born to an academic family in East Lansing, Mich., and educated at Bennington College in Vermont, said The Washington Post.
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