Basketball Diaries' Jim Carroll Dies
09/14/2009
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(Nightwatcher) 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 Times. Carroll was a fixture of the 1970s downtown Manhattan scene, where he mixed with artists such as Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe. His life was shaped by drug use, which he wrote about extensively. - more on this story
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