MUMBAI: Jim Carroll, who chronicled his wild teen years in The Basketball Diaries expired of a heart attack at the age of 60 yesterday.

Carroll‘s most famous work, The Basketball Diaries was published in 1978 in which he wrote of his wild youth as both a basketball star and a drug abuser during his teen years at Manhattan‘s private Trinity school.

The book was made into a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio in 1995.

Carroll also worked with rockers from Lou Reed and The Doors to Pearl Jam and Rancid.

Carroll, a fixture on Manhattan‘s downtown punk-rock scene, saw his poetry lauded by icons including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. His work was published in The Paris Review.