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Romance
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Rosemary KlemfussMarried 1978
News + Updates
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Dusty Wright: Best Rock, Pop And Soul Music For Summer 2012, Part 2!Huffington Post - Jul 03, 2012
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James Franco: Summer Reading Part 1 Of 6: 'If I Don't Six'The Huffington Post - Jun 04, 2012
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Take A Picture With The De Lorean Time MachineMiddletown Patch - May 09, 2012
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6 More Things You Should Be Listening To Right NowObsessed with Film - What Cultur - May 05, 2012
Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Jim Carroll.
CHILDHOOD
1949
Birth
Born on August 1, 1949.
TEENAGE
1963
13 Years Old
In fall 1963, he entered public school, but was soon awarded a scholarship to the elite Trinity School.
1964
14 Years Old
He attended Trinity from 1964-1968.
1966
16 Years Old
Apart from being interested in writing, Carroll was an all-star basketball player throughout his grade school and high school career. He entered the "Biddy League" at age 13 and participated in the National High School All Star Game in 1966.
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1967
17 Years Old
While still in high school, Carroll published his first collection of poems, Organic Trains. Already attracting the attention of the local literati, his work began appearing in the Poetry Project's magazine The World in 1967.
1968
18 Years Old
Soon his work was being published in elite literary magazines like Paris Review in 1968, and Poetry the following year.
TWENTIES
1970
20 Years Old
In 1970, his second collection of poems, 4 Ups and 1 Down was published, and he started working for Andy Warhol.
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1973
23 Years Old
Carroll's first publication by a mainstream publisher (Grossman Publishers), the poetry collection Living At The Movies, was published in 1973.
1978
28 Years Old
In 1978, Carroll published The Basketball Diaries, an autobiographical book concerning his life as a teenager in New York City's hard drug culture.
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THIRTIES
1987
37 Years Old
In 1987, Carroll wrote a second memoir entitled Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries 1971-1973, continuing his autobiography into his early adulthood in the New York City music and art scene as well as his struggle to kick his drug habit.
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FORTIES
1991
41 Years Old
Starting in 1991, Carroll performed readings from his then-in-progress first novel, The Petting Zoo.
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1995
45 Years Old
It was also featured in the 1995 film The Basketball Diaries (based on Jim Carroll's autobiography), and was covered by John Cale on his Antártida soundtrack.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
2009
60 Years Old
Carroll, 60, died of a heart attack at his Manhattan home on September 11, 2009.
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