| Title | Just Kids |
| Author | Patti Smith |
| Type | Biography |
| Year of Publication | January 19, 2010 |
| Language | English |
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Just Kids is a memory of Patti Smith, published on January 19, 2010, which documents her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe.
“I didn’t write it to be cathartic,” he said. “I wrote it because Robert asked me to … Our relationship was such that I knew what he wanted and the quality of what he deserved. So that was my schedule to write that book. I wrote it to fulfill my vow with him, that I was on his deathbed. When I finished, I felt like I had kept my promise.
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Book Summary
In Just Kids, Patti Smith’s first prose book, the legendary American artist offers an unprecedented insight into her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the days of New York City days and the Chelsea Hotel in late the sixties and seventies. Smith, an honest and heartwarming story of youth and friendship, brings the same lyrical and unique quality to Just Kids as it does to the rest of her formidable body of work, from her influential 1975 album Horses to her visual art and poetry.
Book Review
Smith’s beautifully crafted love letter to his friend Robert Mapplethorpe works as a memento of a relationship fueled by a passion for art and writing. His graceful praise uncovers the chaos and creativity so ingrained in that earlier time and in the life and work of Mapplethorpe.
About The Author of The Book
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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