About The Author
CHRISTOPHER PAUL CURTIS
Christopher Paul Curtis was born and raised in Flint, Michigan (the setting for Bud, Not Buddy). After graduating from school, he worked on the assembly line of the Fisher Body Flint Plant 1 until his wife suggested that he “better hurry up and start doing something constructive” with his life, at which time he began his writing career.
Mr. Curtis attended the University of Michigan and won the Avery Hopwood Prize as well as the Jules Hopwood Prize for some of his writing there. Mr. Curtis’s major publications include The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 (Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor)and Bud, Not Buddy (Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Award).
Windsor, Ontario, Canada is his current home, where he lives with his wife Kaysandra and children Steven Darrell and Cydney McKenzie. His real-life grandfathers were Earl “Lefty” Lewis, a Negro Baseball League pitcher, and Herman E. Curtis, Sr., a 1930's band leader of “Herman Curtis and the Dusky Devastators of the Depression.”
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