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Iceberg Slim. Robert Beck (born Robert Lee Maupin or Robert Moppins Jr.; [1] 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. Early life. Maupin was born in Chicago, Illinois.
Aug 4, 2015 · Iceberg Slim was born Robert Lee Moppins — he changed his name to Robert Beck — in Chicago in 1918. He realized young that his options were limited. He got his first look at the lush life that...
Aug 19, 2015 · The new book “Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim,” by Justin Gifford, is an exercise in demystification. We learn that Beck’s oft-quoted claim of having an I.Q. of 175 was false ...
Began New Life. Contributed to Black Culture. Remained in the Ghetto. Selected writings. Sources. Robert 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.
Jul 1, 1999 · Iceberg Slim, also known as Robert Beck ,was born as Robert Lee Maupin in Chicago, Illinois on August 4th, 1918.He spent much of his childhood in Milwaukee and Rockford, Illinoisbefore returning to Chicago as a teenager. His father having abandoned them, Slim's mother supported the family by working as a domestic and operating a beauty shop.
Aug 4, 2015 · The first and definitive biography of one of America's bestselling, notorious, and influential writers of the twentieth century: Iceberg Slim, ne Robert Beck, author of the multimillion-copy memoir Pimp and such equally popular novels as Trick Baby and Mama Black Widow.
Aug 4, 2015 · Drawing on a wealth of archival material—including FBI files, prison records, and interviews with Beck, his wife, and his daughters—Gifford explores the sexual trauma and racial violence Beck endured that led to his reinvention as Iceberg Slim, one of America's most infamous pimps of the 1940s and '50s.
- Justin Gifford
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