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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Gifford, Justin, 1975-     Subjects     Iceberg Slim, 1918-1992.     African American authors -- Biography.     African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.     Pimps -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gifford, Justin, 1975-       by title:      Street poison : the ...         MARC Display

Street poison : the biography of Iceberg Slim / Justin Gifford. by Gifford, Justin, 1975- New York : Doubleday, c2015. Subjects Iceberg Slim, 1918-1992.   African American authors -- Biography.   African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.   Pimps -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography. ISBN:  9780385538343 (hardcover) : 0385538340 (hardcover) Description:  xxi, 265 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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 career as a, yes, ruthless pimp in the '40s and '50s, Iceberg Slim refashioned himself as the first and still the greatest of "street lit" masters, whose vivid books have made him an icon to such rappers as Ice-T, Jay-Z, and Snoop Dogg and a presiding spirit of "blaxploitation" culture. You can't understand contemporary black (and even American) culture without reckoning with Iceberg Slim and his many acolytes and imitators. Literature professor Justin Gifford has been researching the life and work of Robert Beck for a decade, culminating in Street Poison, a colorful and compassionate biography of one of the most complicated figures in twentieth-century literature. 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. From pimping to penning his profoundly influential confessional autobiography, Pimp, to his involvement in radical politics, Gifford's biography illuminates the life and works of one of American literature's most unique renegades" -- provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 813.54 Iceberg Slim Gi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waikiki-Kapahulu Public Library Adult Biography B Iceberg Slim Gi Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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