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This article is about the author and cartoonist. For the former American football player, see Jeff Kinney (American football).

American author, cartoonist and screenwriter (born 1971)

Jeffrey Patrick Kinney (born February 19, 1971)^[1] is an American author and cartoonist.

He is best known for creating, writing and illustrating the children's book series Diary of a Wimpy Kid. He also created the child-oriented website Poptropica.

Early life

Kinney was born and raised in Fort Washington, Maryland.

Youtube jeff kinney biography books and facts

Kinney attended Potomac Landing Elementary School and later Bishop McNamara High School, where he graduated in 1989. He has an older brother and sister, and a younger brother.^[2] He is of Irish descent.^[3] He attended the University of Maryland, College Park, in the early 1990s.

It was in college that Kinney created a popular comic strip, Igdoof, which ran in the school student newspaper, The Diamondback.^[4] Kinney gradu