Jim Carroll

James Dennis Carroll (1. august 1949–11. september 2009)^[1] var ein USA-amerikansk forfattar, diktar, sjølvbiografiforfattar og punkemusikar. Carroll var mest kjend for sjølvbiografien The Basketball Diaries frå 1978, som inspirerte til filmen med same namn med Leonardo DiCaprio som Carroll i 1995. Han er òg kjend for songen «People Who Died» frå 1980 av The Jim Carroll Band.

Jim Carroll
Carroll i Seattle i 2000
Verkeleg namn	James Dennis Carroll
Statsborgarskap	USA
Fødd	1. august 1949(1949-08-01) Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Død	11. september 2009 (60 år) New York by
Yrke	Forfattar, diktar, musikar
Aktive år	1967–2009
Kjend for	The Basketball Diaries
Språk	engelsk
Jim Carroll på Commons

Bøker

Dikt

• Organic Trains (1967)
• 4 Ups and 1 Down (Angel Hair Press; 1970)
• Living at the Movies (Penguin Books; 24. september 1973)
• The Book of Nods (Puffin; 1. april 1986)
• Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems (Penguin Books; 1. november 1993)
• Void of Course: Poems 1994–1997 (Penguin Books; 1. oktober 1998) ISBN 0-14-058909-0
• 8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain (1994)

Prosa

• The Basketball Diaries (memoar) (1978)
• Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries 1971–1973 (memoar) (1987)
• The Petting Zoo (roman) (2010; published posthumously)^[2][3]

Diskografi

Album

• Catholic Boy (1980)
• Live Dreams (1981)
• Dry Dreams (1982)
• I Write Your Name (1983)
• A World Without Gravity: Best of The Jim Carroll Band (1993)
• Pools of Mercury (1998) ^[4][5] (2012 Digital Download) ^[6]
• Runaway EP (2000)

Talte ord

• Praying Mantis (1991) (2008 Digipak reissue) ^[7]
• The Basketball Diaries (1994)
• Pools of Mercury (1998)

Samarbeid

• Live at Max's Kansas City, The Velvet Underground (1972)
• Club Ninja, Blue Öyster Cult (1985)
• Mistrial, Lou Reed (1986)
• Other Roads, Boz Scaggs (1988)
• Between Thought and Expression: The Lou Reed Anthology, Lou Reed (1992)
• ...And Out Come the Wolves, Rancid (1995)
• Catholic Boy, Pearl Jam (1995)
• Feeling You Up, Truly (1997)
• Yes I Ram, Jon Tiven Group (1999)

Samlealbum og lydspor

• The Dial-a-Poem Poets (1972)
• Disconnected (1974)
• The Nova Convention (1979), med Frank Zappa
• One World Poetry (1981)
• Better an Old Demon than a New God (1984)
• Lou Reed at the Capitol Theatre (1984)
• Tuff Turf soundtrack (1985)
• Release #8 - 1993 (1993)
• Back to the Streets: Celebrating the Music of Don Covay (1993)
• Sedated in the Eighties (1993)
• New Wave Dance Hits: Just Can't Get Enough, Vol. 6 (1994)
• The Basketball Diaries (1995)
• Put Your Tongue to the Rail: The Philly Comp for Catholic Children (Songs of the Jim Carroll Band) (1999)
• WBCN Naked 2000 (1999)
• Dawn of the Dead (2004)
• The Darwin Awards (2005)