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Writing in the Rust Belt

Find out how Christopher Paul Curtis began his writing career while working on the assembly line.

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Christopher Paul Curtis

Children’s Author

Christopher Paul Curtis did not become a published author until he was in his 40’s. Before his first novel was published, he spent much of his adult life working in an automobile factory. Work at the factory became so unbearable that Curtis began having semi-hallucinations at night of car doors and assembly lines moving through his bedroom. Fortunately, Curtis’ fate changed dramatically when his first two novels received some of the most prestigious awards in all of children’s literature.

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