About the Author

Lynn Davis's work appears in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, which held an exhibition of Davis's prints in 1999. Davis has received several commissions from public and private institutions, including the Lannan Foundation, the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and the Nature Conservancy. She is also the author of the books Monument, American Monument, and Illumination. She lives in New York. Patti Smith is a writer, performer, and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary mergence of poetry and rock. Her seminal album Horses, bearing Robert Mapplethorpe's renowned photograph, has been hailed as one of the top 100 albums of all time. She has recorded twelve albums. Smith had her first exhibit of drawings at the Gotham Book Mart in 1973 and has been represented by the Robert Miller Gallery since 1978. Her books include Witt, Babel, Woolgathering, The Coral Sea, Auguries of Innocence, and the New York Times best seller Just Kids.