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Jim Carroll Dead

  • 9/14/09 at 09:15 AM
Jim Carroll Dead

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Jim Carroll, the poet whose heroin addiction and athletic career were chronicled in 1978's The Basketball Diaries, died in his home Friday of a heart attack, according to his wife. He was 60. [NYT]

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