Michael curtis biography
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Senior Editor
"Writers crave the intelligence and ardor of this magazine's editors and readership as well as the privilege of inclusion in its pages," says best-selling author Louise Erdrich, who, like so many young fiction writers, was introduced to national readership and subsequent success in The Atlantic Monthly.
Senior editor C. Michael Curtis edits virtually all Atlantic fiction, the Letters to the Editor, and other pieces. He also screens book-length first serial submissions and most unsolicited stories, which number some 12,000 manuscripts annually. Under his direction The Atlantic Monthly's fiction is nominated for a National Magazine Award virtually every year; in 1988 The Atlantic won this prestigious prize. Year after year short stories from the magazine are chosen for inclusion in the important annual prize collections. Curtis himself was the editor of American Stories: Fiction From The Atlantic Monthly, which was published in 1990.
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Biography
Originally signed to ASCAP by Bob Doyle, long-time manager for Garth Brooks, Michael Curtis began his musical career in earnest in Nashville in 1982. An accomplished performer and recording artist in his own right, Curtis has written and produced songs reaching across musical genres for numerous Grammy award-winning artists such as Randy Travis, Blake Shelton, Josh Turner, Lee Ann Womack, Ricky Skaggs, Collin Raye, Shenandoah, The Martins, Gordon sammanträde and many others.
Mitch Peyser, Vice President and Executive Producer for Time Life, with whom Curtis maintains a long-term relationship describes Curtis as “. . . an extraordinary talented producer, songwriter and musician who understands how to put a quality production together. He helps bring together top talent to ensure a high level of production value and professionalism.”
The one thing he is most proud of is his relationship with Jesus Christ. Michael has a
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Michael Kent Curtis is one of the foremost constitutional historians in the United States. His book "Free Speech: The People's Darling Privilege: Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History" won the Playboy Foundation Heffner First Amendment Award for the best book of its year on the subject of the 1st Amendment. The North Carolina Literary and Historical Society also chose the book as the best non-fiction book of the year by a North Carolina author. Professor Akhil Amar of Yale Law School described Michael Curtis's book "No State Shall Abridge: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights" as "one of the most important and most impressive works of constitutional scholarship of the late twentieth century." Professor Curtis has also received the Frank Porter Graham Award from the North Carolina Civil Liberties Union for achievement in defending and advancing civil liberties in North Carolina. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina with his wife Deborah Mau