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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 Carroll Band.
He 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...
Check out ‘People Who Died’ by The Jim Carroll Band off their album ‘Catholic Boy’. Recently featured in the new 'Suicide Squad 2' film. Jim Carroll expresse...
Jim Carroll. Actor: The Basketball Diaries. During the 1960s, Carroll was a basketball prodigy and a fountain of untapped talent. He was also progressively becoming an addict.
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 Carroll...
Jim Carroll was a poet by 12, junkie by 13, prep-school gangster 14, posh-girl-seducer 15, all-star baller 16, and then on to the Pulitzer nod, the punk-rock classic, and the author of the ...
Jim Carroll, a poet and punk rocker whose wry tales of rocky adolescence as an athlete-turned-junkie in the 1978 memoir “The Basketball Diaries” resonated deeply with a generation of disaffected...
Jim Carroll: poet, diarist, musician, and author of The Basketball Diaries.
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...
Jim Carroll, a poet and punk rocker whose wry tales of rocky adolescence as an athlete-turned-junkie in the 1978 memoir “The Basketball Diaries” resonated deeply with a generation of...