Jim Carroll

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Personal Info

Known for

Writing

From

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Born

8/1/1949

Age

75

Credit(s)

7

Biography

James Dennis "Jim" Carroll was an author, poet, autobiographer, actor and punk musician. He was the author of “The Basketball Diaries,” 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 ...Show More