List of people from Colorado
Neal Cassady (born in Salt Lake City, Utah, raised in Denver) – figure from the Beat Generation, known for being characterized as Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road Clive Cussler (lives in Golden) – novelist, Raise the Titanic, Deep Six Eugene Field (lived in Denver) – poet and journalist known for his work in children's literature, wrote such poems as Little Boy Blue and Wynken, Blynken, and Nod Allen Ginsberg (lived in Boulder) – beat poet, author of Howl and Kaddish, co-founder of the Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder