It was one of the most iconic record album covers ever released, and Suze Rotolo was part of it: On a snowy day in 1963, she snuggled with Bob Dylan as the two walked down a Greenwich Village street. “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan” went on to become one of his best-known records, but the long-haired girl on his arm was always a mystery.
Now, Rotolo has broken years of silence to tell the story of what it was like to fall in love with Bob Dylan at 17, to introduce him to civil rights politics and modern poetry, and to finally break up with him when the pressures of his stardom became too great. Her new book, “A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties,” offers a revealing glimpse of the young artist, whom she calls with understatement “an elephant in the room of my life.”
“People will always identify Suze as the girl on the album cover, and she’s lived with this since 1963, but that’s not the reason to read her book,” said Sean Wilentz, a Princeton University professor and historian in residence at Dylan’s official website. “She evokes a time and place out of which a good deal of contemporary American culture sprang. It was a time of great freedom, when people were figuring out what they want to be, but freedom is scary.”
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