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Jim Carroll

1949 - 2009

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James Dennis Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) was an American author, poet, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which inspired a 1995 film of the same title that starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll, and his 1980 song "People Who Died" with the Jim Carroll Band. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jim Carroll is the 3,076th most popular writer (up from 3,203rd in 2019), the 4,443rd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,073rd in 2019) and the 348th most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jim Carroll ranks 3,076 out of 7,302. Before him are Aleksey Pisemsky, Stephenie Meyer, Edgar Hilsenrath, Venedikt Yerofeyev, Claribel Alegría, and Consort Ban. After him are Josephine Tey, Laxmi Prasad Devkota, Al-A'sha, Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos, and Igor Gouzenko.

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Among people born in 1949, Jim Carroll ranks 257. Before him are Hennie Kuiper, Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, John Illsley, Dado Topić, Michael Richards, and Agostina Belli. After him are Roger Deakins, Sabine Azéma, William Forsythe, Ibrahim Mahlab, Alan Lancaster, and Mustafa Denizli. Among people deceased in 2009, Jim Carroll ranks 151. Before him are Yoshito Usui, José Torres, Stéphanos II Ghattas, Venetia Burney, Ken Annakin, and Alda Merini. After him are Savka Dabčević-Kučar, Jim Rohn, Béla Király, Robert Anderson, Peter Shirayanagi, and Aram Tigran.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jim Carroll ranks 4,443 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Robert Jenkins (1940), Bob Cousy (1928), Diplo (1978), Eddie Lawson (1958), Fred Quimby (1886), and John Havlicek (1940). After him are David Stern (1942), Roger Ailes (1940), Dennis Sullivan (1941), Norman Finkelstein (1953), Chavo Guerrero Jr. (1970), and Afrika Bambaataa (1957).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Jim Carroll ranks 348. Before him are L. Sprague de Camp (1907), Bruce Sterling (1954), R. A. Salvatore (1959), Anne McCaffrey (1926), Henrietta Szold (1860), and Stephenie Meyer (1973). After him are Elmore Leonard (1925), Howard Fast (1914), John Edward Williams (1922), Richard Bandler (1950), E. L. Doctorow (1931), and Gregory Benford (1941).

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