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Suze Rotolo

December 31, 2011 by · Comments Off on Suze Rotolo 

Suze RotoloSuze Rotolo, Susan Elizabeth Rotolo (November 20, 1943 – February 25, 2011), known as Suze Rotolo (pronounced /?su?zi?/ soo-zee), was an American artist, but is perhaps best known as Bob Dylan’s girlfriend between 1961 and 1964 and a strong influence on his music. She is the woman walking with him on the cover of his album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, a ground-breaking street image by the CBS studio photographer, Don Hunstein. In her book, A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties, Rotolo described her time with Dylan and other figures in the folk music and bohemian scene in Greenwich Village, New York. She also discussed her upbringing as a “red diaper” baby—a child of radicals during the McCarthy Era. As an artist, Rotolo specialized in artists’ books and taught at the Parsons School of Design in New York City.

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