Rock musician Patti Smith is now a literary star. Her memoir about life in New York City in the 1960s, Just Kids, won the National Book Award for nonfiction. The literary awards were handed out Wednesday night in New York City.
http://www.npr.org/2010/11/18/131406...nfiction-award
at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Just-Kids-Patt...0537268&sr=1-1
A bit more here:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2...ti-smith-weeps