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Article: Jim Carroll; wrote songs, `Basketball Diaries'
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 14, 2009
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NEW YORK - Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker in the outlaw
tradition of Rimbaud and Burroughs who chronicled his wild youth in
"The Basketball Diaries," died on Friday at his home in Manhattan.
He was 60.
The cause was a heart attack, said Rosemary Carroll, his former
wife.
As a teenage basketball star in the 1960s at Trinity, an elite
private school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Mr. Carroll led
a chaotic life that combined sports, drugs, and poetry. This highly
unusual combination lent a lurid appeal to "The Basketball Diaries,"
the journal he kept during high school and published in 1978, by
which time his poetry had already won him a cult reputation as the
new Bob Dylan.
"I ...