Troupe è famoso anche al di fuori dell'ambito poetico e letterario per essere stato il biografo di Miles Davis.
Opere The Architecture of Language, poems, Coffee House Press, (October 2006) Little Stevie Wonder, A children's book, Houghton-Mifflin, (March, 2005) Transcircularities; New and Selected Poems, Coffee House Press, October, 2002 Take it to the hoop Magic Johnson, a children's book published by Jump At The Sun, a division of Hyperion/Disney Books of Children, 2001 Miles and Me; A Memoir. Hardcover edition, University of California Press, 2000 Choruses, poems, Coffee House Press, 1999 Avalanche, poems, Coffee House Press, 1996 Weather Reports: New and Selected Poems, Harlem River Press, New York and London, 1991 Miles: The Autobiography of Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe, Co-author, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1989 James Baldwin: The Legacy, Quincy Troupe, ed., Touchstone Press (Simon & Schuster), New York 1989 Skulls Along the River, poems, Quincy Troupe, I. Reed Books, New York, 1984 Snake-Back Solos: Selected Poems 1969-1977, Quincy Troupe, I. Reed Books, New York, 1979 The Inside Story of TV's Roots, Quincy Troupe and David L. Wolper, Warner Books, New York, 1978 Giant Talk: An Anthology of Third World Writing, Rainer Schulte and Quincy Troupe, eds., Random House, New York, 1972 Embryo, Quincy Troupe, Balenmir House, New York, 1972 Watts Poets and Writers, Quincy Troupe, ed., House of Respect, California, 1968
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