Bob Dylan's First Love Writes Autobiography With Intimate Details

Bob Dylan's former flame Suze Rotolo, the woman Dylan is walking with on the cover of his breakthrough album, The Frewheelin' Bob Dylan , is writing her autobiography. The book is similarly titled "A Freewheelin’ Time" and reportedly reveals intimate details about the turbulent relationship between the young couple. Rotolo is currently 64 years old, still living in New York City, still an artist, and a teacher at the prestigious Parsons School of Design. Dylan wrote of Suze in his 2005 memoirs "Chronicles: Volume One" saying, "Meeting her was like stepping into the tales of 1001 Arabian Nights. She had a smile that could light up a street, a particular kind of voluptuousness, a Rodin sculpture come to life." He also described Suze as, "the most erotic thing I’d ever seen." It should come as no surprise then that Suze became pregnant with Dylan's child while they were together. What may be shocking to some (though not most fans) is the idea that she may have had an abortion, a practice that was very much illegal at the time. (This idea comes from a statement in Rolling Stone magazine, referring to "A Freewheelin' Time" but it is not confirmed yet what the book will admit to. But little details such as this is one reason why the book is quickly developing a buzz among fans of both artists.According to an article in the Times Online:

Rotolo, who came from a sophisticated, liberal family, is widely regarded as Dylan’s first and most influential lover when the baby-faced country boy from Minnesota arrived in New York in early 1961. She introduced him to painters and poets and to politics, inspiring him to write songs such as Blowin’ in the Wind and A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.She was only 17 but had already organised political actions such as picketing Woolworths because it forced black and white people to eat apart.