Melvin Van Peebles - Bibliography

Bibliography

• (As "Melvin Van".) The Big Heart. San Francisco: Fearon, 1957. With photographs by Ruth Bernhard, a book about life on San Francisco's cable cars. "A cable car is a big heart with people for blood. The people pump on and off — if you think of it like that it is pretty simple" (p. 21).
• Un Ours pour le F.B.I. (1964); A Bear for the F.B.I. Trident, 1968.
• Un Américain en enfer (1965); The True American. Doubleday, 1976.
• Le Chinois du XIV (1966). (short stories)
• La Fête à Harlem (Harlem Party) (1967). (novel)
• La Permission, (1967)
• Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. Lancer Books, New York 1971.
• Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death. Bantam, New York 1973.
• Don't Play Us Cheap: A Harlem Party. Bantam Books, New York 1973.
• Just an Old Sweet Song. Ballantine, New York 1976.
• Bold Money: A New Way to Play the Options Market. Warner Books, New York 1986, ISBN 0-446-51340-7 (nonfiction)
• Melvin and (his son) Mario Van Peebles: No Identity Crisis. A Fireside Book, Simon & Schuster, New York 1990