They later divorced.It was Smith who encouraged his music, and he formed the Jim Carroll Band. Among his other albums were the less successful "Dry Dreams" (1982) and "I Write Your Name" (1984).

Jim Carroll, a poet and punk rocker whose wry tales of rocky adolescence as an athlete-turned-junkie in the 1978 memoir "The Basketball Diaries" resonated deeply with a generation of disaffected ...

Forget everything you know about poet Jim Carroll from The Basketball Diaries, the movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio that was based on Carroll's book of the same name. The book chronicles Carroll's ...