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Patti Smith

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PATTI SMITH is a writer, performer, and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary merging of poetry and rock. She has released twelve albums, including Horses, which has been hailed as one of the top one hundred albums of all time by Rolling Stone.

Smith had her first exhibit of drawings at the Gotham Book Mart in 1973 and has been represented by the Robert Miller Gallery since 1978. Her books include Just Kids, winner of the National Book Award in 2010, Wītt, Babel, Woolgathering, The Coral Sea, and Auguries of Innocence.

In 2005, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith the title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, the highest honor given to an artist by the French Republic. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.

Smith married the musician Fred Sonic Smith in Detroit in 1980. They had a son, Jackson, and a daughter, Jesse. Smith resides in New York City.

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Patti Smith

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Books from Patti Smith

Just Kids

M Train

Year of the Monkey

Devotion

Woolgathering

My Ideal Bookshelf

The Coral Sea

Early Work, 1970-1979

A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father

The Happy Birthday of Death

Devotion

Patti Smith at the Minetta Lane: Words and Music

All The Songs: The Story Behind Every Beatles Release

Complete

Astragal

Rock She Wrote: Women Write about Rock, Pop, and Rap

Camera Solo

Long Live Man

David Lynch: Someone Is in My House

The Anchor Anthology of French Poetry: From Nerval to Valery in English Translation