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Patti Smith, Patti Smith (1977), is a collection of poems and sheet music; and Patti Smith Complete 1975–2006: Lyrics, Reflections, & Notes for the Future (2006) combines her lyrics with her own annotations and photographs by Annie Leibovitz and Robert Mapplethorpe, among others. Dusty Roach, Patti Smith: Rock & Roll Madonna (1979), is a popular photo book. Biographies, oral histories, and critical examinations include Nick Johnstone, Patti Smith: A Biography (1997); Dave Thompson, Dancing Barefoot: The Patti Smith Story (2011); Aidan Levy (ed.), Patti Smith on Patti Smith: Interviews and Encounters (2020); and Caryn Rose, Why Patti Smith Matters (2022). Profiles of her may be found in Lucy O’Brien, She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop, and Soul (1995), pp. 111–117; Deborah Frost, “Patti Smith,” in Barbara O’Dair (ed.), Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock (1997), pp. 269–275; and Patricia Morrisroe, Mapplethorpe: A Biography (1995).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add new Web site: PBS - American Masters - Patti Smith. | Sep 23, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: CBC.ca - Patti Smith on music, art and navigating loss. | Mar 28, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Dec 26, 2025 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised and updated. | Dec 01, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fresh Air Archive - Patti Smith. | Oct 01, 2025 | ||
| Added a photo showing the album cover of Horses. | May 29, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Harvard Business Review - Life�s Work: An Interview with Patti Smith. | Mar 27, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: NPR - Artist Patti Smith on her latest photography book 'A Book of Days'. | Dec 20, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Guardian - Patti Smith: �You decide your fate. Are you going to fall apart or own it?�. | Oct 25, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - �Bansai, bansai, it�s better to write then die�: Patti Smith as icon of the contemporary writing memoir. | Jun 19, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 22, 2024 | ||
| Added A Book of Days. | Nov 17, 2022 | ||
| Noted her work with Soundwalk Collective. | Jan 20, 2021 | ||
| Added the book Year of the Monkey. | Oct 02, 2019 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Aug 15, 2018 | ||
| Added the book Devotion. | Sep 12, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Centre for the Book - Biography of Patti Smith. | Apr 10, 2017 | ||
| Noted the publication of M Train. | Oct 06, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: AllMusic - Patti Smith. | May 12, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Poetry Foundation - Biography of Patti Smith. | May 12, 2014 | ||
| Added the album Banga (2012). | Jun 27, 2012 | ||
| Just Kids won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2010. | Nov 18, 2010 | ||
| Her memoir, Just Kids, was published in 2010. | Jan 21, 2010 | ||
| Added new Web site: Official Site of Patti Smith. | Dec 04, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Patti Smith. | Dec 04, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Mar 16, 2007 | ||
| Article revised. | Apr 20, 2001 | ||
| Article revised. | Feb 09, 2000 | ||
| New article added. | Dec 02, 1999 |