Christopher Paul Curtis
Christopher Paul Curtis is an American author of children’s fiction best known for his books The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 and Bud, Not Buddy.
Curtis was born on May 10th, 1953, in Flint, Michigan; he was the second of five children and his father was a doctor. After high school he worked on the assembly line of the Fisher Body Plant/Flint Plant No.1. He attended the University of Michigan. Curtis began writing while working the arduous job at the factory, and decided after thirteen...