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Earned his B.A. in Music, City College of New York, 1969. Reviewed recordings for American Record Guide and Fanfare magazines. Compiled and published discographies of the Czech composer Leoš Janácek and American composers Roy Harris and Walter Piston. His Janácek discography was cited in the article on the composer in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Was Technical Editor of The Gillette Company’s Information Technology News, an in-house newsletter distributed to over 1,800 employees and clients.

Member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) since 2016. Also a member of Actors' Equity and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). Unpublished picture books include Bear, Bear and Bear: Attorneys at Law (a riff on The Three Bears), Party Animal, Meet Lincoln and Loo Loo and The Penguin Who Wanted to Fly. Currently at work on a musical adaptation of a 1956 television play, The Genie of Sutton Place, by George Selden and Kenneth Heuer. Regular contributor of non-fiction articles to the English-Portuguese Magazine A Praça (Town Square), a bimonthly in worldwide distribution.

Neal Porter, the award-winning children's book editor and founder of Neal Porter Books, said in an SCBWI editors' panel that he "publishes picture books his 7-year-old self would love." I write picture books that my 7-year-old self would love, and I love things that are funny and silly but also heartwarming. I am drawn to characters who face challenges and by dint of hard work, creativity, and perseverance, overcome them.

For professional inquiries, write to: bill.curtis@mindwatering.net.

See website https://wdcurtis.com.