Soul on Ice (book)

Soul on Ice

First edition cover
Author	Eldridge Cleaver
Language	English
Genre	Memoir
Publisher	Ramparts Press Inc.
Publication date	1968
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	214 pp
ISBN	0-440-18163-1

Soul on Ice is a memoir and collection of essays by Eldridge Cleaver. Originally written in Folsom State Prison in 1965, and published three years later in 1968, it is Cleaver's best known writing and remains a seminal work in African-American literature.^[1][2] The treatises were first printed in the nationally-circulated monthly Ramparts and became widely read for their illustration and commentary on Black America. Throughout his narrative, Cleaver describes not only his transformation from a marijuana dealer and serial rapist into a convinced Malcolm X adherent and Marxist revolutionary, but also his analogous relationship to the politics of America.^{[citation needed]}