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Jim Carroll


Born
in New York, New York, The United States
August 01, 1949

Died
September 11, 2009

Genre
Biographies & Memoirs, Poetry


James Dennis "Jim" Carroll was an author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which was made into the 1995 film of the same name with Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll.

Carroll became sober in the 1970s. After moving to California, he met Rosemary Klemfuss; the couple married in 1978. The marriage ended in divorce, but the two remained friends.

Carroll died of a heart attack at his Manhattan home on September 11, 2009, at the age of 60. At the time of his death, he was in ill health due to pneumonia and hepatitis C. He was reportedly working at his desk when he died. His funeral mass was held at Our Lady of Pompeii Catholic Church on Carmine Street in Greenwich ...more

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Average rating: 3.97 · 37,307 ratings · 1,217 reviews · 91 distinct works • Similar authors
The Basketball Diaries
3.99 avg rating — 31,925 ratings — published 1978 — 53 editions
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Forced Entries- The Downtow...
3.93 avg rating — 1,463 ratings — published 1987 — 10 editions
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Fear of Dreaming: The Selec...
4.10 avg rating — 999 ratings — published 1993 — 12 editions
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The Petting Zoo
3.45 avg rating — 873 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions
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Living at the Movies
4.05 avg rating — 494 ratings — published 1973 — 10 editions
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Void of Course
4.13 avg rating — 405 ratings — published 1998 — 7 editions
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The Book of Nods
4.05 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 1986 — 3 editions
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The Basketball Diaries And ...
4.28 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 1987
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Organic Trains - Poems by J...
4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1967 — 3 editions
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8 fragments for Kurt Cobain
4.60 avg rating — 15 ratings — 4 editions
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“Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.”
― Jim Carroll
tags: afterlife, conscience, death, ghosts, poetry
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“It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl next to me who wasn't beautiful until she smiled and I felt that smile come at me in heat waves following, soaking through my body and out my finger tips in shafts of color and I knew somewhere in the world, somewhere, that there was love for me.”
― Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries
tags: love
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“I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.

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― Jim Carroll, Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems
tags: poetry, sins
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