Curtis, Christopher Paul

1953 – He was born on the 10th day of May this year in Flint, Michigan this year.

1963 – He wrote The Watsons Go to Birmingham and a winner of Newberry Medal.

1999 - He worked for 13 years on an assembly line. Bud Not Buddy is the only book to win both the Newbery Medal for outstanding children's book in the US.