Person Who Died

"The writer’s good looks and flair for drama made him ideal raw material for rock stardom. 'When I was about 9 years old, man, I realized that the real thing was not only to do what you were doing totally great, but to look totally great while you were doing it,' he told the poet Ted Berrigan in the 1960s."

In The New York Times, William Grimes writes an obit for Jim Carroll.