Mary Teresa Pezzati Rotolo Bowes (January 28, 1910 – September 27, 1990) was an American writer and political activist.
While in Boston, Rotolo dated B. F. Skinner[1] and was acquainted with Conlon Nancarrow, who later renounced his American citizenship because of his membership in the Communist Party.
On July 1, 1933 while taking a sailboat trip along the Eastern United States coast her husband fell overboard and drowned.
Mary and her husband were also friends with American writer Charles Flato who, it was discovered only in the 1990s, was a Soviet spy.
Joachim Rotolo died of a heart attack on February 18, 1958, before Suze met and lived with Bob Dylan in the early 1960s.
Mary lived on the top floor of an apartment building on Sheridan Square and treated me like I had the clap.
Suze's mom was a small feisty woman-volatile with black eyes like twin coals that could burn a hole through you, and was very protective.