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AdLit

Ad lit.org: A Video Interview With Christopher Paul Curtis

9th - 10th
Christopher Paul Curtis was born in Flint, Michigan in 1953. Growing up in an all-black neighborhood, the only white people he ever saw were the teachers at his school. From kindergarten through eighth grade, Curtis was a straight-A...
Instructional Video
Penguin Publishing

Penguin Random House: Christopher Paul Curtis: Classroom Cast

4th - 8th
This site shares a classroom cast with the author Christopher Paul Curtis. Newbery Award winner, Christopher Paul Curtis discusses his new novel The Mighty Miss Malone, his early writing career and the publication of The Watsons Go to...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Author Interviews: Christopher Paul Curtis

4th - 7th
Christopher Paul Curtis only became a published author in his 40's. Before that, he worked in an automobile factory, which became so unbearable that he began having semi-hallucinations at night of car doors and assembly lines moving...