Non-fiction: Memoir

Author of Woolgathering, M Train, Year of the Monkey, A Book of Days, and Collected Lyrics, in which she describes her post-World War II childhood in working class Philadelphia and South Jersey, her teenage years when the first glimmers of art and romance take hold, her rise as punk rock icon to her retreat from public life when she meets her one true love and starts a family on the shores of Lake Saint Clair, Michigan, and her return to writing, the one constant on a lifelong path driven ...