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James 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 ...
Sep 25, 2009 · FINAL SHOT Jim Carroll, here in the late 70s, soared to stardom young, with his book The Basketball Diaries and his punk band. He was finishing an autobiographical novel when he died. Michael...
Sep 14, 2009 · 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 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…
Jim Carroll: poet, diarist, musician, and author of The Basketball Diaries.
Sep 14, 2009 · Poet 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...
Sep 14, 2009 · Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker who wrote “The Basketball Diaries,” passed away Friday at the age of 60. He died from a heart attack at his home in Manhattan, his ex-wife Rosemary ...
