Luminous: Reclaiming the Acid Queen

Photo illustration by Angelo Bautista. Original images by Penguin Random House, Eugene Golovesov, and Kier in Sight Archives (CC0)

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November 08, 2025

We all know Timothy Leary, the high priest of ‘60s psychedelia, but his partner, Rosemary Woodruff Leary, has largely been forgotten. She also had a remarkable life, even breaking Leary out of prison with the help of the Weather Underground. Now, biographer Susannah Cahalan tells her story — from the heady Sixties to a life on the run for decades.

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