Jim Carroll, American author, poet and musician (born 1949)

Jim Carroll

American author and musician (1949–2009)

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"…