Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll (born August 1, 1950 in New York City) is an author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll is best known for his 1978 novel The Basketball Diaries, which was made into a movie in 1995 starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

Books

Poetry

• Organic Trains (1967)
• 4 Ups and 1 Down (1970)
• Living at the Movies (1972)
• The Book of Nods (1986)
• Fear of Dreaming (1993)
• Void of Course: Poems 1994-1997 (1998) ISBN 0140589090

Diaries/Prose

• The Basketball Diaries (1978)
• Forced Entries (1987)

Books influenced by Jim Carroll

• Only Skin Deep, George Kimball (1968)
• The Crow, James O'Barr (1981)
• Wonderland Avenue, Danny Sugerman (1989)
• The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie (1993)
• Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh (1993)
• The Acid House, Irvine Welsh (1994) ISBN 0393312801
• Twelve, Nick McDonell (2002)