Куинси Трауп: Американ ақыны және Майлс Дэвистің өмірбаянының авторы

American poet (born 1939)

Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr. (born July 22, 1939) is an American poet, editor, journalist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, California. He is best known as the biographer of Miles Davis, the jazz musician.

Throughout the 1970s, Troupe lived in New York, teaching at the College of Staten Island. During that time, he was a regular on the poetry circuit, performing alone or in groups around the country. In 1985, Spin magazine hired Troupe to write an exclusive two part interview with Miles Davis, which led Simon & Schuster to him as co author for Davis's autobiography. Miles: The Autobiography was published in 1990 and won an American Book Award for the authors, garnering them numerous positive reviews and accolades. From 1991 to 2003, Troupe was professor of Caribbean and American literatures and creative writing at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), in La Jolla, California. On June 11, 2002, Troupe was appointed California's first poet laureate by then Governor Gray Davis. A background check related to the new political appointment revealed that Troupe had, in fact, never possessed a degree from Grambling; he attended for only two semesters in 1957–58 and then dropped out. After admitting that he had not earned a degree, he made the decision to resign, rather have it become a political issue for the Democratic Governor. As a consequence, Troupe resigned from the poet laureate's position in October 2002 and retired from his post at UCSD. Shortly after the controversy, Troupe moved back to New York City. The year 2006 saw the publishing of his collaboration with self made millionaire Chris Gardner on the latter's autobiography, The Pursuit of Happyness. The book served as the inspiration for a film of the same name later that year starring Will Smith. Other notable works by Troupe include James Baldwin: The Legacy (1989) and Miles and Me: A Memoir of Miles Davis (2000). He also edited Giant Talk: An Anthology of Third World Writing (1975) and is a founding editor of Confrontation: A Journal of Third World Literature and American Rag. Troupe currently lives in New York City with his wife, Margaret.