"This is the story of Iceberg Slim's life, as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it. A trip through hell by the one man who lived to tell the tale. The dangers of jail, addiction and death that are still all too familiar. By telling the story of one man's struggles and triumphs i…
This is the story of Iceberg Slim's life, as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it. A trip through hell by the one man who lived to tell the tale. The dangers of jail, addiction and death that are still all too familiar.
A biography of the notorious and influential writer explores the sexual trauma and racial violence he endured that led to his reinvention as Iceberg Slim, one of America's most infamous pimps of the 1940s and 50s.
"The first biography of Robert Beck, aka Iceberg Slim, (1918-1992), builds a compelling case that the pimp-turned-popular author provided the foundation for gangsta rap, Blaxploitation movies, and so much of the underground culture that became mainstream. Gifford offers a lively…
A biography of the notorious and influential writer explores the sexual trauma and racial violence he endured that led to his reinvention as Iceberg Slim, one of America's most infamous pimps of the 1940s and 50s.
"The first and definitive biography of one of America's bestselling, notorious, and influential writers of the twentieth century: Iceberg Slim, né Robert Beck, author of the multimillion-copy memoir Pimp and such equally popular novels as Trick Baby and Mama Black Widow. From a …
Iceberg Slim is the name he used in the black ghetto. His real name is Robert Beck and he was a pimp. This is his story, told without bitterness and with no pretense at moralizing-- the smells, the sounds, the fears, the petty triumphs in the world of the pimp.
Fictionalized account of Iceberg Slim's own life as a pimp in the Chicago area in the 1940s and '50s.