Jim Carroll

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James Dennis Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) was an American author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician.

Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries; the book inspired a 1995 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll.

Early life

Carroll was born in Lower Manhattan, New York City, to an Irish-working-class family. His family immigrated north to Inwood in Upper Manhattan when he was about 11 (in the sixth grade). The LaSalle Christian Brothers taught him. He began Rice High School in Harlem in 1963, but was soon granted a scholarship to Trinity School. He attended Trinity from 1964 to 1968.

Carroll, aspired to cocaine while high school basketball player, but he also became addicted to heroin. He paid for his heroin use by participating in prostitution in the area around 53rd Street and Third Avenue in Manhattan. Carroll attended Wagner College and Columbia University for a short time. Patti Smith was dated by him.

Personal life

Carroll went sober in the 1970s. He met Rosemary Klemfuss after moving to California; the couple married in 1978. The marriage ended in divorce, but the two people remained close.

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Career

Rainer Maria Rilke, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs were among his artistic influences on his creative career, according to Carroll.

Carroll's first collection of poems, Organic Trains, appeared while high school was still in high school. His work began to be noticed by the local literati in 1967, and he began appearing in the Poetry Project's magazine The World. His work was soon to be published in prestigious literary journals such as the Paris Review in 1968 and Poetry the following year. He began writing for Andy Warhol in 1970, his second collection of poems, 4 Ups and 1 Down, was released, and he began working for him. At first, he was writing film dialogue and inventing character names; later, Carroll was co-manager of Warhol's Theater. Living at the Movies, Carroll's first book published by a mainstream publisher (Grossman Publishers), was released in 1973.

Carroll wrote The Basketball Diaries, an autobiographical book about his life as a youth in New York City's difficult drug culture in 1978. The Diaries is an edited collection of the diaries he kept during his high school years; it includes his sexual interests, his high school basketball career, and heroin use.

Carroll's second book, Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries 1971–1973, chronicling his autobiography into his early youth in the New York City music and art scene, as well as his struggle to kick his heroin use.

Carroll went back to writing full time in the mid-1980s and began to appear on the spoken-word circuit more often. Carroll began readings from his then-in-progress first book, The Petting Zoo, in 1991.

Curtis' Charm," a short story from Carroll's 1993 book Fear of Dreaming, was turned into the film Curtis' Charm in 1995.

Carroll formed Amsterdam, a young wave/punk rock band formed in 1978, after he moved to California to get a fresh start after overcoming his heroin use, with help from Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe. Steve Linsley (bass), Wayne Woods (drums), and Terry Linsley (guitars) were present in this performance. When the support band pulled out at the last minute, he did a spoken word piece for the Patti Smith Group in San Diego.

They renamed The Jim Carroll Band and were able to sign a recording deal with Atlantic Records with Keith Richards, the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards. They issued "People Who Died" as a single on their 1980 debut album Catholic Boy, and Rolling Stones Records had planned to be released on Rolling Stones Records. The single will make it to No. 1 in the United States. Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart #103. Allen Lanier and Bobby Keys contributed to the collection. In Steven Spielberg's 1982 film "People Who Died" was the first recorded use of "People Who Died" in film. The extra-Terrestrial opening scene in the first scene with dialogue when the boys play Dungeons & Dragons. It was also used in the 1985 Kim Richards film Tuff Turf starring James Spader and Robert Downey Jr., which also included a cameo appearance by the band. It was also used in 2004's Dawn of the Dead, and in Mr.'s 2015 episode "eps1.9_zero-day.avi" he was included. Robot. It was featured in Carroll's autobiography in 1995, but it was covered by John Cale on his Antártida soundtrack. The song was also covered by the super group Hollywood Vampires on their album Rise, with vocals by Johnny Depp. Ted Berrigan's song "British" was based on a poem. The following albums, Dry Dreams (1982) and I Write Your Name (1983), both with Lenny Kaye and Paul Sanchez (guitar), were released. Carroll has performed with musicians Lou Reed, Blue Yster Cult, Boz Scaggs, Ray Manzarek of The Doors, Pearl Jam, Electric Light Orchestra, and Rancid.

"People Who Died" was the most recently used in James Gunn's 2021 film The Suicide Squad and the Season 4 end credits, referring to late cast member Brian Tarantina.

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