insider.si.edu: Street poison : the biography of Iceberg Slim / Justin Gifford
"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 ...
Under the pseudonym “Iceberg Slim,” a former pimp revamped his life and became one of the best-selling authors of the 20th century. While his work was vilified in polite circles, Robert Beck ...
Salon: The Mark Twain of hip-hop: How Iceberg Slim’s “Pimp” changed pop culture
Iceberg Slim is an influential cult writer who many readers have never read. His vivid and relentless autobiography, “Pimp: The Story of My Life,” from 1967, tells of the quarter century the author ...
The Mark Twain of hip-hop: How Iceberg Slim’s “Pimp” changed pop culture
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