Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker who wrote “The Basketball Diaries,” died Friday. He was 60. He died from a heart attack at his home in Manhattan, his ex-wife Rosemary Carroll told the New York ...

Punk-rock poet and musician Jim Carroll, who chronicled his wild teen years in "The Basketball Diaries," has died of a heart attack, his ex-wife told The New York Times. By Chris Michaud, Reuters, The ...

Jim Carroll seemed to have a problem with elderly Irish women. Then again, Jim Carroll had lots of problems. Carroll, the author of the proclaimed memoir “The Basketball Diaries,” died this week. He ...

Jim Carroll, who died 10 years ago Wednesday, was a star high school athlete who was also drawn to writing, particularly poetry. Author and poet Jim Carroll was just 12 years old when he started ...

For the October, 1982 issue of High Times, Glenn O’Brien interviewed writer, musician, and poet Jim Carroll (1949-2009), who would have been 71 years old this August 1. Jim Carroll is an incomparable ...