Children's Author:

Christopher Paul Curtis

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Christopher Paul Curtis is the bestselling author of Bud, Not Buddy, winner of the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Author Award, among many other honours. His first novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963, was also singled out for many awards, among them a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Honor. His most recent book is Bucking the Sarge. Chirstopher Paul Curtis grew up in Flint, Michigan. After high school, he began working on the assembly line at the Fisher Body Flint Plant No.1 while attending the Flint branch of the University of Michigan, where he began writing essays and fiction. He is now a full-time writer. Christopher Paul Curtis and his wife, Kay, have two children and live in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.