Jeff Kinney was born in 1971 in Fort Washington. He wrote a series of books called “Diary of a Wimpy Kid.” Kinney unsuccessfully tried to start a career as a cartoonist. In 2004, Jeff started putting portions of his book each day on one of the Family Education Network’s Web sites, Funbrain.com. In 1998, Kinney began to come up with ideas for his first Wimpy Kid book. Jeff’s online novel attracted about 70,000 visitors each day. Two years later he signed a print contract to publish his work as a book. In 2010, his books became
