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Christopher Paul Curtis

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American children's writer

United StatesWritersBorn 1953 · age 73
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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.

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2020Regina Medal
2015E.B. White Award
2005Michigan Author Award
2000Newbery Medal
1996Coretta Scott King Award

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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.

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United States
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Born 1953 · age 73
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