Patti Smith: A Baby Wolf With Neon Bones
Nick Tosches, Penthouse, April 1976
PATRICIA LEE SMITH hit the linen on December 30, 1946, in Chicago, and was raised, the eldest of four children, in Deptford Township, New Jersey.
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