Smith, Patti: - Patti Smith is a writer, performer, and visual artist.
Her books include M Train , Witt , Babel , Woolgathering , The Coral Sea , and Auguries of Innocence ..
Her seminal album Horses , bearing Robert Mapplethorpe\'s renowned photograph, hasbeen hailed as one of the top one hundred albums of all time.
She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary mergence of poetry and rock and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.
Smith, Patti: - Patti Smith is a writer, performer, and visual artist