What happened in Jeff Kinney’s life before he
became famous?
PROJECT QUESTION:
General Information Born: February 19th 1971, in Maryland
Age: 45 years
Nationality: American
Wife and Family: Julie (wife), Will and Grant (children) and Scott, Patrick and Ann Marie
(siblings)
Occupation(s): Author, Actor, Cartoonist and a Game Designer
Extremely Early Life
Jeff Kinney was born in Maryland, Fort Washington, and went to the Bishop
McNamara High School. He then went to Maryland University, where he created the
cartoon called Igdoof. After he put it in the Uni Newspaper, he realised that he wanted to be a cartoonist. This is how he discovered his love
for drawing and writing.
Igdoof Comic Strip
Relatively Early Life
In 1995 he moved to New England. He tried to pursue his cartooning career but found himself
writing his 1st Diary of a Wimpy Kid book in 1998. It then took 9 years to get published!!!
Then in 2009 he was named in the top 20 arts entertainers in the Time 100. As soon as his 1st book got published it was extremely popular, and there was about 42 million copies sold by
2010!
1st and 2nd Diary of a Wimpy Kid Books
Diary of a Wimpy Kid – ‘07 Rodrick Rules – ‘08
3rd and 4th books
The Last Straw – ‘09 Dog Days – ‘09
5th and 6th books
Ugly Truth – ‘10 Cabin Fever – ‘11
7th and 8th books
Third Wheel – ‘12 Hard Luck – ‘13
9th and 10th books
Long Haul – ‘14 Old School – ‘15
Themes and Series
After discovering his love for drawing and making funny comics at Maryland University, Jeff decided to put together two unique (and opposite) themes and
write a book which used them. That book was the trigger for the rest of a very successful series! Even
though Kinney only wrote 1 series, we all experienced a laugh every time we read his books, and we all love
the fact that he brought an American kid’s life to reality. He has been the #1 New York Times bestselling
author for an extremely long time!
Fun Facts!!!
He created a website called Poptropica.com!!!
His brother Scott wrote one of the songs in a
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
movie!!!
At one stage he studied to become a law enforcement
officer!!!
Bibliography 1 - www.wimpykid.com/about-the-author/
2 - www.wimpykid.com
3 - www.famousauthors.org/jeff-kinney
4 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Kinney_(author)
5 - www.penguin.com.au/contributors/4951/jeff-kinney
6 - https://www.penguin.com.au/products/978014330381/diary-wimpy-kid/62977/10-things-you-did-not-know-about-jeff-kinney
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