Random House to Publish Memoir by Patti Smith
Fifteen years after publication of the National Book Award–winning Just Kids, Random House will publish poet, writer, and performer Patti Smith’s memoir Bread of Angels on November 4. Random House acquired North American publishing rights, edited by Ben Greenberg, from Betsy Lerner at Dunow, Carlson and Lerner Literary Agency.
In the memoir, Smith will reflect on “her post-World War II childhood in working class Philadelphia and South Jersey, her teenage years when the first glimmers of art and romance take hold, her rise as punk rock icon to her retreat from public life when she meets her one true love and starts a family on the shores of Lake Saint Clair, Michigan,” according to a release.
Random House will publish Bread of Angels in print and digital formats. An audiobook edition will be released simultaneously by Penguin Random House Audio and will be read by the author. Bloomsbury in the U.K. and translation publications around the world will also launch on November 4.
Smith is also the author of Woolgathering, M Train, Year of the Monkey, A Book of Days, and Collected Lyrics.
