Already attracting the attention of the local literati, his work began appearing in the Poetry Project's magazine The World in 1967.

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Starting in 1991, Carroll performed readings from his then-in-progress first novel, The Petting Zoo. He performed a spoken word piece with the Patti Smith Group in San Diego when the support band dropped out at the last moment. They released a single, "People Who Died", taken from their 1980 debut album Catholic Boy, originally intended to be released on Rolling Stones Records.In 1995, Canadian filmmaker John L'Ecuyer adapted "Curtis's Charm", a short story from Carroll's 1993 book Fear of Dreaming, into the film Curtis's Charm. In 1970, his second collection of poems, 4 Ups and 1 Down was published, and he started working for Andy Warhol. Soon his work was being published in elite literary magazines like Paris Review in 1968, [2] and Poetry the following year.

In 1987, Carroll wrote a second memoir, Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries 1971–1973, continuing his autobiography into his early adulthood in the New York City music and art scene as well as his struggle to kick his drug habit. It was also used in the 1985 Kim Richards film Tuff Turf starring James Spader and Robert Downey Jr. citation needed] Carroll also collaborated with musicians Lou Reed, Blue Öyster Cult, Boz Scaggs, Ray Manzarek of The Doors, Pearl Jam, Electric Light Orchestra and Rancid.At first, he was writing film dialogue and inventing character names; later on, Carroll worked as the co-manager of Warhol's Theater. Carroll identified Rainer Maria Rilke, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, [6] Allen Ginsberg, and William S.

Carroll was born to a working-class family of Irish descent, and grew up in New York City's Lower East Side. His funeral mass was held at Our Lady of Pompeii Catholic Church on Carmine Street in Greenwich Village. In fall 1963, he entered Rice High School in Harlem, but was soon awarded a scholarship to the elite Trinity School. In 1978, after he moved to California to get a fresh start since overcoming his heroin addiction, Carroll formed Amsterdam, a new wave/ punk rock group, with encouragement from Patti Smith, with whom he once shared an apartment in New York City, along with Robert Mapplethorpe.People Who Died" was most recently used in the 2021 film The Suicide Squad, directed by James Gunn, and the end credits of the Season 4 The Marvelous Mrs.