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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…
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Sep 14, 2009 · September 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...
Welcome to CatholicBoy.com! This site is an in-depth exploration of the work, biography, and legacy of New York poet/diarist/lyricist/performer Jim Carroll. I hope there's something here for everyone interested in learning more about him. -- Cassie Carter, PhD. The Petting Zoo Is Here! The Petting Zoo is now available in bookstores. Learn More >
Biography. Trivia. FAQ. IMDbPro. All topics. Jim Carroll (1949-2009) Actor. Writer. Soundtrack. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Play trailer 3:18. Obscene (2007) During the 1960s, Carroll was a basketball prodigy and a fountain of untapped talent. He was also progressively becoming an addict.
Sep 15, 2009 · 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...
Sep 15, 2009 · Tue 15 Sep 2009 11.14 EDT. Jim Carroll was always more famous for his life than his work. The obituaries that have followed his death since last Friday have focused on his book, the Basketball...
Sep 14, 2009 · A respected poet and musician, Carroll also was the author of "The Basketball Diaries," which was adapted into a 1995 movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Carroll died Friday at his home in...
