Jim Carroll
1949-08-01THE BIOGRAPHY
James Dennis "Jim" Carroll was an author, poet, autobiographer, actor and punk musician. He was the author of βThe Basketball Diaries,β a cult-classic memoir of his drug-fueled misadventures as a teenager in the 1960s. Then he became a celebrated downtown poet; and then in 1980, the star of his own hit rock band. With the help of the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards, Carroll signed a record deal and in 1980
