Christopher Paul Curtis
Autor(a) de Bud, Not Buddy
About the Author
Newbery Medal-winning children's book author Christopher Paul Curtis was born in Flint, Michigan on May 10, 1953 and graduated from The University of Michigan. While there he won the Avery and Jules Hopwood Prizes for poetry and a draft of one of his early books. Curtis spent thirteen years on an mostrar mais assembly line hanging car doors. His story The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 received a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Honor, and Bud, Not Buddy became the first novel to win both of these awards. Elijah of Buxton received the 2008 Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, and a Newbery Honor. Curtis also won the 2009 Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por Christopher Paul Curtis
Christopher Paul Curtis Set of 5 Award Winning Paperbacks Includes the Madman of Piney Woods, the Watsons Go to… (2014) 12 exemplares
Yearling Newbery Boxed Set (Island of the Blue Dolphins, Johnny Tremain, Belle Prater's Boy, Wrinkle in Time,… (2000) 2 exemplares
The Slave Dancer 1 exemplar
Alabama 1963 1 exemplar
The Wasstons go to Barmingham 1 exemplar
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1953-05-10
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA (birth)
Canada - Local de nascimento
- Flint, Michigan, USA
- Locais de residência
- Windsor, Ontario, Canada
- Educação
- University of Michigan-Flint
- Ocupações
- factory worker
author - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Michigan Author Award (2005)
Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement (2024)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Christopher Paul Curtis grew up in Flint, Michigan. After high school he began working on the assembly line at the Fisher Body Flint Plant no.1 while attending the Flint branch of the University of Michigan. Today he is a full-time writer. He and his wife, Kay, have two children, Steven and Cydney. The Curtis family lives in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. [adapted from Bud, not Buddy (1999)]
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Sonlight Books (2)
Canada (1)
6th Grade (1)
Black Authors (1)
1800s: America (1)
Newbery Adjacent (1)
Youth: BLM (1)
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- ISBN
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