This is FRESH AIR. Patti Smith, known as the grandmother of punk, has received several honors, including an induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the French Legion of Honor. But for our book ...

Rocker Patti Smith was awarded the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids. The book documented Smith's relationship with late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the late '60s and early '70s New ...

With “Bread of Angels,” Patti Smith has finally given readers the long-awaited follow-up to 2010’s “Just Kids.” Unlike “M Train” (2015) and “Year of the Monkey” (2019), both of which mixed memoir with ...