Jim Carroll

Known for: Writer
Date of birth: 1949. August 1.
Place of birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

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 ...