Smith

Patti Smith is an American musician, poet, painter, and author who rose to prominence with her debut album Horses (1975), a foundational work of the New York punk scene that fused poetry with rock. Her memoir Just Kids (2010), which chronicles her formative years alongside photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in late 1960s New York, won the National Book Award for nonfiction. She has also published collections of poetry including Babel (1978) and The Coral Sea (1996), and the memoir M Train (2015).