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Bookmark or Share- Iceberg Slim - WikipediaRobert Beck (born Robert Lee Maupin or Robert Moppins Jr.; August 4, 1918 – April 30, 1992), better known as Iceberg Slim, was an American former pimp who later became a writer. Beck's novels were adapted into films.
- The Fires That Forged Iceberg Slim | The New YorkerThe controversial report blamed black women—or, rather, an entrenched matriarchal culture—for sexual promiscuity, street crime, and the poverty that plagued black communities. Even close ...
- Pimp: The Story of My Life - Iceberg Slim - Google BooksIceberg Slim, also known as Robert Beck, was born in Chicago in 1918 and was initiated into the life of the pimp at age eighteen. He briefly attended the Tuskegee Institute but dropped out...
- Iceberg Slim 1918–1992 | Encyclopedia.comRobert Beck, better known as Iceberg Slim, sold more than six million books before he died in 1992. At one time he was said to be the best-selling African American novelist ever. Before he became a writer Beck was a “ manager ” of prostitutes, or a pimp for nearly 30 years.
- Review: ‘Street Poison,’ a Biography of Iceberg Slim, Writer ...Iceberg Slim died in 1992, mostly forgotten, as the Rodney King riots raged in the streets near where he lived in Los Angeles.
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