Singer-songwriter, poet, and visual Artist whose 1975 album Horses significantly influenced the New York punk scene.
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She was the recipient of the 2010 National Book Award for Just Kids, her memoir.
She married Fred Sonic Smith on March 1, 1980 and they had a son named Jackson and a daughter named Jesse together before Fred's death in 1994.
Smith and Allen Ginsberg were close friends; they met when Ginsberg mistook her for an attractive young man and he bought her lunch.
