Jim Carroll is remembered in literature for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Jim Carroll as American author, poet, and punk musician (1949–2009).
Jim Carroll was born at Manhattan in 1949. His recorded nationality is the United States. He was educated at Columbia University and Wagner College.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
The record gives his occupations as singer, poet and novelist.
The work that carried his reputation furthest concerned 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which inspired a 1995 film of the same title that starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll. Books outlive their reviews, and the ones that last are seldom the ones that sold.
The surviving body of work includes The Basketball Diaries.
His work was formally recognised with the James Parks Morton Interfaith Award.
Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Jim Carroll died in 2009 at the age of 60. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Notable work: The Basketball Diaries
- Educated at Columbia University, Wagner College and Trinity School
- Worked as singer, poet and novelist
