| LC control no. | no 95020514 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3552.E25 |
| Personal name heading | Iceberg Slim, 1918-1992 |
| Variant(s) | Slim, Iceberg, 1918-1992 Moppins, Robert Lee, 1918-1992 |
| See also | Real identity: Beck, Robert, 1918-1992 |
| Other standard no. | 0000000107778710 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Milwaukee (Wis.) Detroit (Mich.) |
| Birth date | 1918-08-04 |
| Death date | 1992-04-28 |
| Place of birth | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Place of death | Culver City (Calif.) |
| Affiliation | Wendell Phillip High School (Chicago, Ill.) |
| Profession or occupation | Novelists Essayists Pimps Swindlers and swindling |
| Found in | Pimp, c1987: t.p. (Iceberg Slim) The naked soul of Iceberg Slim, 1986: t.p. (Robert Beck) Mama black widow, 1998: CIP t.p. (Iceberg Slim) CIP data sheet (d. 1992) LC in OCLC, 4-21-95 (hdg.: Beck, Robert, 1918- ) Wikipedia, Aug. 11, 2009 (Iceberg Slim (August 4, 1918- April 28, 1992), also known as Robert Beck, was an African American author of books variously categorized as urban fiction, street literature, and black pulp fiction; Born Robert Lee Maupin [Beck]) African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Beck, Robert "Iceberg Slim" ; Robert Lee Maupin Jr.; pimp-turned-novelist, autobiographer, memoirist, essayist; born 04 August 1918 in Chicago, Illinois, United States; graduated in 1934 Wendell Phillip High School; after two years in Tuskegee went to New York; returned to Chicago in 1936 and began his twenty five year career as a pimp and street hustler earning the moniker of Iceberg Slim; in 1967 submitted his autobiography; the manuscript would eventually become Pimp; died 28 April 1992 in Culver City, California, United States) New York times, 5 August 2015: (in book review for Street poison: the biography of Iceberg Slim / by Justin Gifford; Iceberg Slim was born Robert Lee Moppins in Chicago in 1918; changed his name to Robert Beck; pimp, then writer, and a model of style) <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/books/review-street-poison-the-biography-of-iceberg-slim-studies-the-life-of-a-pimp.html> |
| Associated language | eng |
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