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Jeff Kinney

Jeff Kinney attended Bishop McNamara High School in Forestville, Maryland and currently lives in Plainville Massachusetts with his wife, Julie, and two sons, Will and Grant. Jeffrey "Jeff" Kinney (born February 19, 1971) is an American game designer, cartoonist, and author of children's books including the Diary of a Wimpy Kid book series. He is also attributed to be the creator of the children-oriented website Poptropica. Jeff Kinney is well known for all those great book he has written. Most famous Diary of a wimpy kid.


    Jeff Kinney lives's in Massachusetts.Jeff Kinney has worked as a newspaper designer and computer programmer, and at other occupations that do not hinge on physical prowess. He never intended to run Diary of a Wimpy Kid on the Web, but the opportunity came up to post his story on Funbrain.com as he was developing it. He and his family live in Plainville, Massachusetts.

Nine years ago, game developer Jeff Kinney started to write the diary of a boy named Gregg Heffley.  A few years after that, he began to publish the story on the website FunBrain.com.    Charles Kochman  picked it up for the Harry N. Abrams imprint, Amulet Books, and the Diary of a Wimpy Kid phenomenon was on.Since then, Kinney published a sequel, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules and, this month, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do it Yourself Book. A third story, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Last Straw is due in January.

  Jeff attended the University of Maryland in the early 1990s. It was there that he ran a comic strip called "lgdoof" in the campus newspaper and knew that he wanted to be become a newspaper strip cartoonist. Although Jeff started writing down ideas for Diary of a Wimpy Kid in 1998, it wasn't until spring of 2007 that his book was published — and quickly became a New York Times bestseller, eventually reaching the number one spot.

 In 2010, Diary of a Wimpy Kid was made into a movie starring Zach Gordon as Greg Heffley.In 2009, Jeff was named one of the 20 Artists & Entertainers in The TIME 100, the magazine's list of The World's Most Influential people.Jeff lives Plainville, Massachusetts with his wife and their two sons. His birthday is on February 20, 1971. That is all about Jeff Kinney(: