![]() ![]() "In my eyes it would take a very, very special book to displace The Watsons from the number one position on my list of favorites," he says. Perhaps because The Watsons changed his life and enabled him to write full-time, it has always been this author's favorite book. Now a sought-after and powerful speaker, Curtis recalls, "I had just been turned down for a promotion to become a customer service representative at the company because I was told, ”We don't think you're quite ready to speak to the public.'" Before The Watsons was published, Curtis spent 13 years on the assembly line at the Fisher Body Flint Plant No. Curtis, who had long considered writing about slavery, realized that in Buxton he had discovered the setting for his new novel, Elijah of Buxton.Ĭurtis, who loves to do school visits and enjoys teasing the kids, burst onto the writing scene in 1995 with the Newbery Honor book, The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963, which he describes as one of those last-ditch efforts where you close your eyes and put everything you have into the ultimate do-or-die effort. ![]() The name of Buxton rang a bell it was the site of a 19th-century settlement for freemen and escaped slaves. ![]() ![]() One day, award winning-author Christopher Paul Curtis, who makes his home in Windsor, Ontario, drove past a sign that read Buxton 5 kilometers. ![]()
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