Christopher Paul Curtis

Christopher Paul Curtis won the Newberry Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award for his bestselling second novel Bud Not Buddy. His first novel , The Watsons go to Birmingham-1963, was also singled out for many awards, amoung them Newberry Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor, and has been a bestseller in hardcover and paperback. Christopher Paul Curtis grew up in Flint, Michigan, (just like Bud). After school he began working on the assembly line at the Fisher Body Plant No. 1 while atending the Flint branch of the University of Michigan. Today he is a full-time writer. He and his wife, Kay have two kids, Steven and Cydney. The Curtis family lives in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. 

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