Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1918
- Died
- 1992
- Works
- 17
Top works
- Death Wish
- Trick baby
- Long White Con
- Pimp
- Pocket Canons Bible
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- Total plays
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Born Robert Lee Maupin (August 4, 1918 – April 30, 1992), and also known as Robert Beck, he is best known as Iceberg Slim, an African American author known for his hard edged tales of urban life. After dropping out of Alabama's Tuskegee Institute in 1937, he eventually started pimping in the brutal Chicago underworld, soon becoming successful in the trade. After several stints behind bars, and watching his mother die of cancer, he eventually gave up "the life", and a debilitating heroin addic
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- perpetrator
- Educated at
- Tuskegee University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- procuring
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- date of birth
- 1918-08-04
- date of death
- 1992-04-28
- cause of death
- liver disease
- place of burial
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- manner of death
- natural causes
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