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Patti Smith speaks candidly with PEOPLE about the making of her new memoir, Bread of Angels

In the book, she discloses never-before-shared family secrets and explains why she decided to open up now

Bread of Angels is available wherever books are sold

Patti Smith didn't plan to write another memoir.

The godmother of punk, who broke into the music scene in the '70s with her debut album, Horses , and later set the literary world on fire with her National Book Award-winning 2010 memoir, Just Kids , never saw herself writing another nonfiction piece of work.

"I wrote [ Just Kids ] for Robert [Mapplethorpe] because he asked me to, just hours before he died. And I labored on that book for a long time, and did learn how to write a book such as that, but I hadn't plann

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