Just Kids is a memoir by Patti Smith, published on January 19, 2010, documenting her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe.

"I wrote it because Robert asked me to… Our relationship was such that I knew what he would want and the quality of what he deserved.

[4] The BookScore assessed it at an aggregated critic score of 8.8/10 based on an accumulation of British and American press reviews.

Just Kids was featured on the January 19, 2010, episode of Fresh Air, with Smith being interviewed by Terry Gross.

The network landed the rights partly because Smith wanted to collaborate with writer John Logan, being a fan of his series Penny Dreadful.