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Former girlfriend of controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

Was the inspiration for Gilda Radner's character Candy Slice on Saturday Night Live (1975).

Former girlfriend of Actor, Screenwriter, & ex-drummer, Sam Shepard in 1971 when they co-wrote & acted in a play "Cowboy Mouth" at the American Place Theatre, New York City.

Was the first performer to sell out a poetry recital at New York's CBGB's music club.

She and husband, Fred 'Sonic' Smith, lived in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, an eastern suburb of Detroit, during their married years from 1980 to his death in 1994.

Won the National Book Award in 2010 for her memoir, "Just Kids", which she plans on adapting into a screenplay. It discusses her whole life, but specially focuses on her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe.

Her song "About a Boy" is a tribute to late Nirvana vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Kurt Cobain, who wrote a song called "About a Girl".

Husband Fred 'Sonic' Smith died of heart failure in 1994, at the age of 45 years.

She was voted the 47th Greatest Artist in Rock 'n' Roll by Rolling Stone.

Born to a Jehovah's Witness mother, she grew up in Woodbury, New Jersey.

Widow of MC5 guitarist Fred 'Sonic' Smith.

Active supporter of the US Green Party.

Since the death of her husband, Patti chronicles much of her life with her vintage Polaroid Land 250 camera.

Poet and punk musician.

Gave birth to her son Jackson Smith in 1982 and her daughter Jesse Smith in 1987.

Husband Fred 'Sonic' Smith broke a decade-long hiatus from music to co-produce her comeback album, "Dream of Life".

Was romantically linked to Allen Lanier before marrying Fred 'Sonic' Smith.

She was nominated for the 2018 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Performing Arts category.

Ranked #15 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll

She will appear in New York City at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on 7 April 2005 as part of a program entitled "The Dark and the Light: An Evening of Spoken Word and Music Dedicated to Diane Arbus." This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Diane Arbus Revelations." (April 2005)

Collaborated on a soundtrack song from Wim Wenders' film, Until the End of the World (1991) (US title: "Until the End of the World").

Graduated from Deptford Township High School (1964).

Resides in Rockaway, Queens, New York (USA).

Grant Morrison designed the appearance of Kay Challis/Crazy Jane in Doom Patrol based on her.

She and Lenny Kaye were inducted into the 2021 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the performing arts category.