A memorable headline, above, for the review in the New York Times for The Acid Queen, a new biography of Rosemary Woodruff Leary written by Susannah Cahalan. (I always thought if anyone was the "acid queen," it would be Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane, but I guess not).
Anyway, the new book about Rosemary Leary is written by Cree LeFavour. The gift link above gets you behind the Times paywall. A bit from the review:
She was the third wife of Leary, the charismatic Harvard professor turned high priest of 1960s psychedelic counterculture who urged us to “turn on, tune in, drop out.” Much of “The Acid Queen” focuses on the couple’s chaotic, drug- and sex-filled lives between their first meeting in 1965 and their split in 1971, years that included communal compounds in New York and California, arrests, jail time, a prison break and travel as fugitives in North Africa and Europe.
Cahalan is known for her bestselling book Brain on Fire, which was made into a movie.
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