Background

Christopher Curtis was born on May 10, 1953 in Flint, Michigan, United States, in the family of Herman and Leslie Curtis.

Education

Curtis attended Dewey Elementary, Clark Elementary, Pierce Elementary, Whittier Junior High School, and McKinley Junior High School of the Flint Public School System. In 1967, he was the first African-American student to be elected to the student council in the school's history. He graduated from Flint Southwestern High School in 1972 at the age of 19. Returning to college after working for years, he graduated from the University of Michigan–Flint in 2000.

Career

Curtis spent 13 years after high school working on the assembly line of Flint's Fisher Body Plant #1. His job entailed hanging car doors on Electra 225s and LeSabres. After quitting Fisher Body, he took a series of low-paying jobs. He worked as a groundskeeper at Stonegate Manor housing cooperative in Flint, served as the Flint campaign co-manager for United States Senator Donald Riegle, as customer service representative for Mich Con in Detroit, a temporary worker for Manpower in Detroit, and warehouse clerk for Automated Data Processing in Allen Park, Michigan. Christopher started writing children's books, publishing his first book in 1995. Curtis also edited "Bites: Scary Stories to Sink Your Teeth Into", a collection of scary children's stories published in 2010 by Scholastic.

Achievements

• Christopher Paul Curtis is famous as an author of a book "The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963", written in 1995.

Works

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  • The Journey of Little Charlie 2018
  • Elijah of Buxton 2009
  • The Mighty Miss Malone 2013
  • The The Madman of Piney Woods 2016
  • Bud, Not Buddy 2002
  • The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 1995
  • Bucking the Sarge 2006
  • Mr. Chickee's Funny Money 2007

Connections

Christopher is married to a nurse Kaysandra Curtis, with whom he has two children, Steven and Cydney.

Father:

Herman Elmer Curtis

Mother:

Leslie Jane Curtis

Spouse:

Kaysandra Curtis

Son:

Steven Curtis

Daughter:

Cydney Curtis

References

• Christopher Paul Curtis: An Author Kids Love (Authors Kids Love)
  2009
• Christopher Paul Curtis (Children's Authors)
  2011