Long before she was a rock ‘n’ roll legend, Patti Smith (Chicago, 78 years old) was a poet who worked at Scribner, a bookstore next to New York City’s Rockefeller Center. She lived with her partner at ...

Patti Smith Plumbs Her Dreams in ‘Year of the Monkey’ In her third memoir, the singer-songwriter, poet and author writes about her otherworldly experiences crisscrossing the country in 2016.

He designed some of the most visually exciting magazines of the 1970s and ’80s. But his real love, and eventually his focus, was photography. By Penelope Green Sept. 7, 2024 New York Today ...

Patti calls the publication date “especially meaningful,” as it falls on the anniversary of Smith’s death, and on what would’ve been the birthday of her longtime friend, late photographer ...

Bread of Angels is the third memoir Smith has written, following 2010’s Just Kids, in which she details her young life in New York and dating the late Mapplethorpe, and 2015’s M Train, which ...

In “Just Kids,” winner of the 2010 National Book Award, Smith looked back on her early years in New York City and her romance and friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

In “Just Kids,” winner of the National Book Award in 2010, Smith looked back on her early years in New York City and her romance and friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

Johnny Depp performed onstage with Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith and Michael Stipe at a tribute concert for Smith in New York City on Wednesday, March 26.