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Patti Smith wins National Book Award

In a year in which e-books began raining chaos on the publishing industry in a similar way as MP3s upended the music business, a memoir by a rocker took the National Book Award for nonfiction. <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PEPLT006163" title="Patti Smith" href="/topic/entertainment/music/patti-smith-PEPLT006163.topic">Patti Smith,</a> long the poet laureate of the punk movement, made it official with a loving remembrance of her time spent with friend <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PEHST001268" title="Robert Mapplethorpe" href="/topic/arts-culture/robert-mapplethorpe-PEHST001268.topic">Robert Mapplethorpe</a>.<br>
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( Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times )

In a year in which e-books began raining chaos on the publishing industry in a similar way as MP3s upended the music business, a memoir by a rocker took the National Book Award for nonfiction. Patti Smith, long the poet laureate of the punk movement, made it official with a loving remembrance of her time spent with friend Robert Mapplethorpe.

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