Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim by Justin GiffordMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a fascinating, well-researched biography of Robert Beck, better known as Iceberg Slim, the American pimp that captivated a paperback audience with his autobiography and autobiographical novels. As can be expected, that entertainingly distorted autobiography gets analyzed for factuality. As interesting is the Iceberg tie-ins to the start of rap, his friendship with a surprisingly literate Mike Tyson, predilection for solitude, and deeply ingrained narcissism. There are a lot of details in here about his contentious relationship with publisher Holloway House and a fascinating tidbit that his daughter Misty Beck is at work on her own autobiography.
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