caption death_date death_place years_active birth_place name birth_date known_for image article_title birth_name occupation death_cause
carroll in seattle in 2000 11 september 2009 manhattan , new york city 1967 -- 2009 manhattan , new york city jim carroll 1 august 1949 '' the basketball diaries '' jim photo by eric thompson.jpg carroll - seattle wa - september 2000 - jim carroll
 james dennis carroll author , poet , musician , autobiographer heart attack
jim carroll

james dennis `` jim '' carroll -lrb- august 1 , 1949 -- september 11 , 2009 -rrb- was an american author , poet , autobiographer , and punk musician .
carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work `` the basketball diaries '' , which inspired the 1995 film of the same name , starring leonardo dicaprio as carroll .
