WRITER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jim Carroll has received more than 2,548,452 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Jim Carroll is the 3,203rd most popular writer (down from 3,120th in 2019), the 4,073rd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,078th in 2019) and the 345th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Living at the movies
1973
The basketball diaries
American Poets, Biography, Childhood and youth
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.
1978
Canadian Internet handbook
Internet (Computer network), Handbooks, manuals, Handbooks, manuals, etc
1994
1997 Canadian Internet handbook
Handbooks, manuals, Handbooks, manuals, etc, Internet
1996
Selling online
Electronic commerce, Internet marketing, General
1999
Fear of Dreaming
Poetry
1993

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jim Carroll ranks 3,203 out of 7,302. Before him are Jiří Dienstbier, Mihály Babits, Ruben Sevak, Caspar Barlaeus, Giovanni Battista Giraldi, and Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian. After him are Maria Wirtemberska, Peter Benchley, Imre Madách, Adam of Saint Victor, Corippus, and Joan Brossa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Jim Carroll ranks 251. Before him are Jim Sheridan, Niels Arestrup, John Madden, Conny Torstensson, Mustafa Denizli, and Veronica Cartwright. After him are Kiran Bedi, Rob Cohen, Trevor Jones, Alex Higgins, Mari Alkatiri, and Jean Petit. Among people deceased in 2009, Jim Carroll ranks 150. Before him are Fritz Muliar, Kazumi Takada, Gianna Maria Canale, Aram Tigran, Ryuzo Hiraki, and Valentin Varennikov. After him are Savka Dabčević-Kučar, Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, Allen Klein, Lucian Pulvermacher, Joan Martí i Alanis, and Merce Cunningham.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jim Carroll ranks 4,073 out of 20,380. Before him are Hedda Hopper (1885), Michael Kahn (1935), Sean Astin (1971), Matthew Lillard (1970), Yusef Lateef (1920), and George Clinton (1941). After him are Kevin McCarthy (1914), Theodore Hall (1925), Robert Prosky (1930), Peter Benchley (1940), Leonard Adleman (1945), and George M. Dallas (1792).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Jim Carroll ranks 345. Before him are Henrietta Szold (1860), Mike Mentzer (1951), Marianne Williamson (1952), Edward Gorey (1925), Henry Kuttner (1915), and Anne Tyler (1941). After him are Peter Benchley (1940), Hubert Selby Jr. (1928), Mickey Spillane (1918), Edward Bellamy (1850), Gregory Benford (1941), and Willa Cather (1873).

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