James Dennis "Jim" Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) 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.

Biography

Carroll was born to a working-class family of Irish descent, and grew up on New York City's Lower East Side. When he was about 11 (in the sixth grade) his family moved north to Inwood in Upper Manhattan where he attended Good Shepherd School. He was taught by the LaSalle Christian Brothers, and his brother in the sixth grade noted that he could write and encouraged him to do so. In fall 1963, he entered public school, but was soon awarded a scholarship to the elite Trinity School. He attended Trinity from 1964–1968.

He briefly attended Wagner College and Columbia University.

Carroll identified Rainer Maria Rilke, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, James Schuyler,Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs as influences on his artistic career.

Jim Carroll is a futurist and trends and innovation expert.

Carroll has headlined events worldwide, including the CSC Executive Interchange, the Consumer Goods & Technology Innovation Congress, Swiss Innovation Forum, the 4th World HealthCare Innovation and Technology Congress, the Bombardier Operators Conference and Tradeshow, the 2010 Consumer Electronics Association CEO Summit in Ojai, California; the Corenet Global Summit in New Orleans; the Produce Marketing Association Fresh Summit in Orlando; the VIBE (Very Important Beverage Executives) 2010 conference in Las Vegas; and the opening speaker for the 94th Annual General Meeting of the PGA - Professional Golf Association of America in 2010. He speaks on a wide variety of topics, including technology, business model change, innovation, and global challenges and growth.

He is the author of books, including The Future Belongs To Those Who Are Fast, Ready, Set, Done: How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast, and What I Learned from Frogs in Texas: Saving Your Skin with Forward Thinking Innovation.

Jim Carroll (born Tipperary in 1968) is an Irish music journalist, blogger and editor who is currently employed by The Irish Times. He runs a blog titled "On the Record" for the newspaper.

Carroll is a co-founder of the Choice Music Prize, an annual music award given to one Irish album from ten nominations. He also has a radio programme on Dublin's Phantom FM. In 1997 he founded the internet music magazine Muse.

Views

Carroll uses his "On the Record" blog to air his views. In October 2006, Irish Independent journalist Anne-Marie Walsh reported that his views on the Humanzi album as "the most expensive and embarrassing flop of 2006" contrasted greatly with NME's report that the band were "the biggest new act in the country " and that their success "has stopped Dublin in its tracks". His views have also been mentioned by the BBC.

In 2005, the Irish Examiner included Carroll on a list of "those who called the tune in Irish music" that year, saying his column "remains one of the most influential on music".

James Samuel Carroll (born May 6, 1943 in Jonesboro, Arkansas) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League for the New York Giants, the Washington Redskins, and the New York Jets. He played college football at the University of Notre Dame and was drafted in the twelfth round of the 1965 NFL Draft.

Jim Carroll (born 10 August 1939) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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