Christopher Paul Curtis is an American writer of children books and a Newbery Medal winner who created The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 and the critically acclaimed Bud, Not Buddy. Bud, Not Buddy is the first novel to receive both the Coretta Scott King Prize and the Newbery Medal. His newest book, entitled Elijah of Buxton is set in a free Black community in Ontario that was founded in 1849 by runaway slaves.
Christopher Paul Curtis
