Title: The Basketball diaries
First published: 1978
Description: The Basketball Diaries is a 1978 memoir written by author and musician Jim Carroll. It is an edited collection of the diaries he kept between the ages of twelve and sixteen. The original classic story about growing up with drugs and sex and about learning to survive on the streets of New York--once again in print. An urban classic of coming of age.
Subjects: American Poets, Biography, Childhood and youth, Entertainers, Poets, American, General, Poets, biography, Entertainers, united states
Places: United States
People: Jim Carroll
Time periods: 20th century