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Bookmark or Share- The Last Days of Jim Carroll - The New York TimesHe was the author of “The Basketball Diaries,” a cult-classic memoir of his drug-fueled misadventures as a teenager in the 1960s; he then became a celebrated downtown poet; and...
- Jim Carroll - WikipediaJames Dennis Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) 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.
- 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...
- The Jim Carroll WebsiteJim Carroll: poet, diarist, musician, and author of The Basketball Diaries.
- “Basketball Diaries” Author, Punk Icon Jim Carroll Dead at 60Poet and punk rocker Jim Carroll, whose life story was famously documented in his autobiography The Basketball Diaries, died following a heart attack on Friday, September 11th in New York...
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