Background

Jim Carroll: Context

These are some special feature areas I have developed on individual topics, designed to provide more in-depth information . . . and entertainment, I hope!

	About Jim Carroll Overview of Jim Carroll's life and works.

	Important Places These pages offer virtual tours of Jim Carroll's NYC and Bolinas, CA, plus links to other places significant in Carroll's work and life.

	Friends and Influences This is a set of sub-pages about Carroll's friends and influences:
	Important people in Carroll's life and work Carroll's influence on others Carroll's influence on J. O'Barr's The Crow Works to and about Jim Carroll

	The Basketball Diaries This is a set of sub-pages providing background and context for The Basketball Diaries. It includes cross-reference hyperlinks to other feature areas on the website and more:
	Trinity Yearbook Characters in the book The Film
		Scene-by-Scene Guide Jim Carroll's comments Problems with the Film Another fan's perspective Links to other reviews The book
	The Stage Adaptation
		Pascal Ulli: www.PascalUlli.com (external link) Interview: Pascal and Caroline Ulli with Brad Balfour and Cassie Carter Theater Program: Jim Carroll's The Basketball Diaries Review: Dan Bacalzo, TheaterMania.com Review: Michael Criscuolo, NYTheater.com Review: Robin Eisgrau, www.OffOffOff.com Review: Les Gutman, CurtainUp
	Controversies Stories from Dennis Driscoll, who grew up with Jim