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About the authur:

Born in Flint, Michigan, Christopher Paul Curtis spent his first 13 years after high school on the assembly line of Flint's historic Fisher Body Plant 1.

 • Christopher Paul Curtis has three children, Steven, Cydney, and Ayaan. He lives in Detroit, MI with his family.

• After high school, Christopher spent 13 years on the assembly line of the Fisher Body plant, hanging 80-pound car doors on Buicks (while attending college at night!). He wrote during his breaks to escape the noise of the factory.

• Christopher Paul Curtis is a great reader, but as a youth he could not find books “that were about me.”

• His hobbies are; Playing basketball,Collecting old record albums,Writing!