The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary

#1 New York Times bestselling author Susannah Cahalan turns her investigative eye to a key but forgotten woman of the American psychedelic counterculture. Poet Allen Ginsberg once named Rosemary Woodruff Leary “the Acid Queen,” but her legacy remains unacknowledged following her break with husband Timothy Leary in 1972. Using archives and an unfinished memoir, Susannah Cahalan explores Rosemary’s role as a key hidden figure of the acid movement of the 1960s. She was the “queen of setting” at Timothy Leary’s commune in Millbrook, “the high priestess” to the underground media, and an international fugitive, who helped preserve a key piece of American history by safeguarding Leary’s archives after his prison escape. Rosemary, however, is not merely a Zelig of the counterculture. She offers a rare glimpse into a woman’s exploration of altered states and a life lived in pursuit of the ineffable.https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697209/the-acid-queen-by-susannah-cahalan/