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Just Kids is a memoir by Patti Smith, published on January 19, 2010, documenting her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. [1] "I didn't write it to be cathartic," she noted. "I wrote it because Robert asked me to…. Our relationship was such that I knew what he would want and the quality of what he deserved.
M Train is Smith's second memoir, [1] following the 2010 National Book Award-winning Just Kids. [2] While Just Kids recounts Smith's early life, the beginning of her career and particularly her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe, [3] M Train focuses on a later portion of her life, the period since the release of her debut album Horses in 1975. [2]
Other books written by her as a teenager are: The Lampo Circus (2008), Von Gobstopper's Arcade (2009), Halo (2010) and Hades (2011). Margery Allingham (1904–1966) had her first novel, Blackkerchief Dick, about smugglers in 17th century Essex, published in 1923, when she was 19. Jorge Amado (1912–2001) had his debut novel, The Country of ...
October Sky is the first memoir in a series of four, by American engineer Homer Hickam Jr. originally published in 1998 as Rocket Boys. Later editions were published under the title October Sky as a tie-in to the 1999 film adaptation. It is a story of growing up in a mining town, and a boy's pursuit of amateur rocketry in a coal mining town.
August Daniel Carter (1895–1957) was an American comic strip cartoonist who created the long-running Just Kids strip. He was known as Ad Carter, the signature he used on his strips. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Carter was 11 years old when he witnessed his mother's death. She was hit by a streetcar and killed as they crossed the street, a ...
The upcoming book is a "love letter to a life-defining friendship over the decades and following Kate and Leisha's unlikely and extremely entertaining journey stumbling from closeted queer kids to ...
Jennifer Love Hewitt. Jennifer Love Hewitt just shared the cover of her new memoir, and the family portrait featured on the front of the book marks a major milestone for the mom of three.. For the ...
Memoir. A memoir (/ ˈmɛm.wɑːr /; [1] from French mémoire [me.mwaʁ], from Latin memoria 'memory, remembrance') is any nonfiction narrative writing based on the author's personal memories. [2][3] The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual. While memoir has historically been defined as a subcategory of biography or ...