2010 Literary Award Winner - Quincy Troupe

Born in 1939 Quincy Troupe is the recipient of the American Book Awards 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award. A poet, journalist and editor, Quincy’s literary career began while he was with the Army.   Though he attended Grambling State University, he failed to graduate, a consequence which led him to join the American Army where his interest for writing developed. After returning from the army he was offered a writer-in-residence position with Ohio University circa 1969 but he did not stay there long. In 1971 he moved to Staten Island’s Richmond College where he became a lecturer. Despite his lack of academic credentials Troupe became famous in the literary community of the late 1970’s and in 1989 he won the American Book Award for his part in Miles Davis’ autobiography; Miles, the Autobiography. In 2002 he was awarded further honors by being named the first poet Laureate of California. It needs to be noted in buy essays that Troupe spent the years preceding this garnering more acclaim as a literature professor at (UCSD) University of California San Diego.  
Though a discovery in 2002 that he was a university drop-out prompted him to resign from his newly received honors and teaching position in 2006 Quincy Troupe co-authored another autobiography. This time millionaire Chris Gardener’s Pursuit of Happyness, which was later adapted into a film.   Custom essays on troupe’s achievements should also include his fellowships from the National Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts.