Just Kids

About the Author

PATTI SMITH is a writer, performer, and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary mergence of poetry and rock. Her seminal album Horses, bearing Robert Mapplethorpe’s renowned photograph, has been hailed as one of the top 100 albums of all time. She has recorded twelve albums.

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. In 2002, the Andy Warhol Museum launched Strange Messenger, a retrospective exhibit of her drawings, silk screens, and photographs. Her drawings, photographs, and installations were shown in a comprehensive exhibit in 2008 at the Fondation Cartier Pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris.

Her books include Witt, Babel, Woolgathering, The Coral Sea, and Auguries of Innocence.

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

Smith married the late 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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Credits

Jacket images courtesy of Patti Smith

Photograph: Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, Coney Island Boardwalk, September 1, 1969

Jacket design by Allison Saltzman

Bible School, Philadelphia: Courtesy of the Patti Smith Archive

First Holy Communion, Floral Park, Long Island: Courtesy of the Edward Mapplethorpe Archive

Memorial Day, 1967: Courtesy of the Patti Smith Archive

First Portrait, Brooklyn: © Lloyd Ziff. Used with permission.

Hall Street, Brooklyn, 1968: © Lloyd Ziff. Used with permission.

Self Portrait, Brooklyn, 1968: Drawings by Patti Smith courtesy of the Robert Miller Gallery

Patti with Feather: © Linda Smith Bianucci. Used with permission.

Robert’s Hands: © Patti Smith

West Twenty-Third Street, Fire Escape: © Gerard Malanga. Used with permission.

“Sleepless 66”: © Patti Smith

Musee Rimbaud, Charleville, 1973: © Patti Smith

Jim Morrison’s Grave: © Patti Smith

Horses album cover: © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc. Used with permission.

Robert with Lily, 1978: Drawings by Patti Smith courtesy of the Robert Miller Gallery

Memorial card: Courtesy of Patti Smith Archive

The Hotel Chelsea: © Patti Smith

Nathan’s Coney Island: © Patti Smith

Target/Letter, Paris 7.7.69: Courtesy of the Patti Smith Archive

Postcard: Courtesy of the Patti Smith Archive

Robert’s Last Camera: © Patti Smith

View from the window of the Hotel Chelsea, Room 204: © Patti Smith

Robert, 1979: © Patti Smith

Poem: © Patti Smith

MacDougal Street, 1974: © Lynn Davis. Used with permission.

Copyright

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JUST KIDS. Copyright © 2010 by Patti Smith. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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EPub Edition © March 2010

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