About Rosemary Daniell

Rosemary Daniell (born November 29, 1935) is an American second-wave feminist poet and author. She is best known for her controversial poetry collection, A Sexual Tour of the Deep South and memoirs Fatal Flowers: On Sin, Sex, and Suicide in the Deep South and Sleeping with Soldiers: In Search of the Macho Man.

Born Rosemary Hughes in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 29, 1935, Daniell is the older of two daughters born to Melissa Ruth Connell and Parker McDonald Hughes. After the family moved to Tucker, Georgia, Daniell dropped out of Tucker High School at age 16 to marry her first husband Laurens Ramos.