Christopher Paul Curtis

Award-winning author Christopher Paul Curtis began his career on the assembly line of the Fisher Body plant in Flint, Michigan. His first novels met with immediate acclaim. The first won a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Honor. His second won the Newbery Medal.

Both of Curtis' grandfathers were inspirational in his pursuing a career in entertainment. Earl "Lefty" Lewis was a Negro Baseball League pitcher, and Herman E. Curtis was a 1930s bandleader of "Herman Curtis and the Dusky Devastators of the Depression."

Curtis attended the University of Michigan where he earned a Avery Hopwood Prize for a draft of his first novel. Curtis and his family now live in Ontario, Canada.

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