~ Trade Paperback
~ Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction - 2010, and the NAIBA Book of the Year for Nonfiction - 2010
Legendary American artist Patti Smith offers a never-before-seen glimpse into her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies.
An honest and moving story of youth and friendship as well as a portrait of two young artists' ascent to fame, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to Just Kids as she has to the rest of her formidable body of work.
“Just Kids reminds us that innocence, utopian ideals, beauty and revolt are enlightenment’s guiding stars in the human journey.” -- Time Magazine