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Jim Carroll was an American poet, diarist, and rock musician associated with the downtown arts scene in New York City. This collection contains four documents: a 1987 letter from Carroll to Gerald Howard, his editor at Penguin Books, about changes to the proofs of Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries, 1971-1973; a completed 1973 biographical questionnaire sent to Carroll by Grossman Publishers; a postcard to Barbara Preminger at Grossman, written in 1974 while Carroll was in Bolinas, California; and a 1981 agreement between Viking Penguin and Carroll regarding the publication of a paperback edition of Living at the Movies. less

Jim Carroll was an American poet, diarist, and rock musician associated with the downtown arts scene in New York City. Carroll is known for his published diaries of youth and early adulthood and as vocalist and songwriter for the Jim Carroll Band. The Jim Carroll papers date from 1906 to 2009, and contain notes, manuscripts, sound and video recordings, printed matter, correspondence, photographs, personal memorabilia, and Carroll's personal library. The collection documents his work across artistic media, with an emphasis on his music, fiction, and poetry after 1980. less