Patti Smith Penning Mystery Novel

01/27/2011
. (Gibson) After winning a National Book Award for her non-fiction book, Just Kids, last year, punk poet Patti Smith is working on a detective story.

Apparently, she'll be moving from writing about herself and Robert Mapplethorpe in New York City to a novel set in the U.K.

"I've been working on a detective story that starts at St. Giles-in-the-Fields in London for the last two years," the singer/author said while speaking at the Royal Geographic Society in London recently. more on this story

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