Susan Rotolo is a book artist who was Bob Dylan's girlfriend in the early 60s when she was know as Suze Rotolo. She has written a warm and generous memoir about those days called A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties. While it is very much about a time and place and a certain group of people, there is much that speaks to the journey of growing up and understanding one's place in the world as a woman, an artist, and a human being. She concludes the book by saying "The creative spirit finds a way."
Susan's Book work
NY Times obituary
Guardian obituary (I think this is most complete)
Rolling Stone remembrance (by a friend and more a sense of her as a person)
Her own voice on Fresh Air with Terry Gross
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I became fascinated about the Greenwich Village at that time. She did a wonderful job describing ground zero of the folk scene. I went on and read The Mayor of McDougall Street, by Dave Van Ronk.
She did a powerful thing of becoming a successful artist in her own right, getting out from under Dylan's shadow. A warm and bright light has been extinguished. I was saddened to hear of her passing.
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