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Bookmark or Share- Jim Carroll - WikipediaJames Dennis Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) [1] was an American author, poet, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which inspired a 1995 film of the same title that starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll, and his 1980 song "People Who Died" with the Jim Carroll Band.
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- The Last Days of Jim Carroll - The New York TimesSept. 25, 2009. IT’S not easy to come up with a second act when your first act was being Jim Carroll. He was the author of “The Basketball Diaries,” a cult-classic memoir of his drug-fueled ...
- Jim Carroll, Poet and Punk Rocker Who Wrote ‘The Basketball Diaries ...Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker in the outlaw tradition of Rimbaud and Burroughs who chronicled his wild youth in “The Basketball Diaries,” died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was...
- Jim Carroll | Poetry FoundationJim Carroll was born in New York City and descended from three generations of Irish Catholic bartenders. He grew up on the Lower East Side before moving with his family to Upper Manhattan when he was twelve. Carroll revised a diary he kept as a teenage years into his most famous literary work, The…
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