Jim Carroll
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican author, poet, and punk musician (1949-2009)
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James Dennis Carroll 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.
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Country
United StatesCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1949 to 2009 · aged 60
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