Just Kids by Patti Smith

I was never a big Patti Smith fan - not that I didn't like her, just that I was not really into music that much when she was hot. I was a new mom and busy with other mundane stuff. But I did enjoy this memior a lot. I learned a lot about Smith and "the scene" that was going on at the time, in music, art and literature. I especially learned a lot about Robert Maplethorpe.
The book is very well written; Smith could have found her fame in literature or poetry rather than music - and probably would have been happier for it at the time. But as this book proves - she did find her fame in writing. This book won a National Book Award for Non Fiction in 2010.