Christopher Paul Curtis

Christopher Paul Curtis is an American children's author from Flint, Michigan, best known for Bud, Not Buddy and The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963. His first novel, The Watsons, came out in 1995 and earned both a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Honor, and in 2000 he became the first African-American man to win the Newbery Medal, for Bud, Not Buddy. After high school he spent thirteen years as an autoworker for General Motors, later earning a degree from the University of Michigan-Flint.