# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christopher-paul-curtis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:12:29.452Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christopher-paul-curtis"
name: "Christopher Paul Curtis"
slug: "christopher-paul-curtis"
description: "Christopher Paul Curtis is an American children's book author. His first novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, was published in 1995 and brought him immediate national recognition, receiving the Coretta Scott King Honor Book Award and the Newbery Honor Book Award, in addition to numerous other awards. In 2000, he became the first person to win both the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award—prizes received for his second novel Bud, Not Buddy—and the first African-American man to win the Newbery Medal. His novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 was made into a television film in 2013."
tagline: "American children's writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Christopher_Paul_Curtis.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953-05-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.517642666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.nobodybutcurtis.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Christopher Paul Curtis"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Paul_Curtis"
    title: "Christopher Paul Curtis"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Paul_Curtis"
    title: "Christopher Paul Curtis"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump