Jim Carroll
| Jim Carroll | |
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Carroll in Seattle in 2000
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| Born |
James Dennis Carroll August 1, 1949 Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States |
| Died | September 11, 2009 (aged 60) Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States |
| Cause of death | Heart attack |
| Occupation | Author, poet, musician, autobiographer |
| Years active | 1967–2009 |
| Known for | The Basketball Diaries |
James Dennis "Jim" Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) was an American author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which inspired the 1995 film of the same name, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll.
Carroll was born to a working-class family of Irish descent, and grew up on New York City's Lower East Side. When he was about 11 (in the sixth grade) his family moved north to Inwood in Upper Manhattan where he attended Good Shepherd School. He was taught by the LaSalle Christian Brothers, and his brother in the sixth grade noted that he could write and encouraged him to do so. In fall 1963, he entered public school, but was soon awarded a scholarship to the elite Trinity School. He attended Trinity from 1964–1968.
He briefly attended Wagner College and Columbia University.
Carroll identified Rainer Maria Rilke, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, James Schuyler,Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs as influences on his artistic career.
While still in high school, Carroll published his first collection of poems, Organic Trains. Already attracting the attention of the local literati, his work began appearing in the Poetry Project's magazine The World in 1967. Soon his work was being published in elite literary magazines like Paris Review in 1968, and Poetry the following year. In 1970, his second collection of poems, 4 Ups and 1 Down was published, and he started working for Andy Warhol. At first, he was writing film dialogue and inventing character names; later on, Carroll worked as the co-manager of Warhol's Theater. Carroll's first publication by a mainstream publisher (Grossman Publishers), the poetry collection Living at the Movies, was published in 1973.
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