found: Pimp, c1987:t.p. (Iceberg Slim)
found: The naked soul of Iceberg Slim, 1986:t.p. (Robert Beck)
found: Mama black widow, 1998:CIP t.p. (Iceberg Slim) CIP data sheet (d. 1992)
found: LC in OCLC, 4-21-95(hdg.: Beck, Robert, 1918- )
found: 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])
found: 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)