Patti Smith to publish ‘intimate’ new memoir, Bread of Angels

‘It took a decade to write this book, grappling with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime’ … Patti Smith. Photograph: Steven Sebring

Patti Smith has written a memoir that her publishers are describing as her “most intimate and visionary work” yet, which is due out this autumn.

Bread of Angels will cover everything from Smith’s childhood in working-class Philadelphia and South Jersey to her rise as a punk rock star and her subsequent retreat from public life.