The Basketball Diaries is a 1978 memoir written by author and musician Jim Carroll .
4-442: The Basketball Diaries may refer to: The Basketball Diaries (book) , a 1978 memoir by Jim Carroll The Basketball Diaries (film) , a 1995 American biographical film, based on the memoir Basketball Diaries (D:TNG episode) , an episode of Degrassi: The Next Generation Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
8-544: Is an edited collection of the diaries he kept between the ages of twelve and sixteen. Set in New York City , they detail his daily life, sexual experiences, high school basketball career, poetry compositions, the counterculture movement, and especially his addiction to heroin , which began when he was 13. The book was made into a film of the same name in 1995 starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Jim Carroll and Mark Wahlberg as Mickey. Roger Ebert noted in his 1995 review of
12-407: The adaptation that Carroll's original memoir "struck a personal note, of a kid who despite his suffering tried to turn his experience into poetry". Carroll followed up this memoir with a sequel of sorts called The Downtown Diaries which follows his relocation to California and his efforts to end his heroin addiction. This article about a biographical or autobiographical book published in
16-494: The title The Basketball Diaries . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Basketball_Diaries&oldid=904217913 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Basketball Diaries (book) It
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