writer in residence

Children’s author to open writer-in-residence term with public reading Friday

Famed children’s book writer Christopher Paul Curtis Children's author Christopher Paul Curtis will be taking on the role of writer in residence at the University of Windsor this month. (Courtesy: Nicole Markotic/ University of Windsor)

Famed children’s book writer Christopher Paul Curtis will be taking on the role of writer in residence at the University of Windsor this month.

The Michigan-born author, whose work includes numerous magazine and journal articles along with eight books — including three he penned in Leddy Library — will return to campus Friday, March 6, where he will kick off his month-long residency with the writer in residence’s inaugural reading.

Curtis’s first novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963, was released in 1995 and brought him immediate and well-deserved recognition.