Jeff Kinney was born on February, 19, 1971. He is marred to Julie Kinney and has two kids of his own. He was educated at the University of Maryland in 1990 and won a Kids Choice Awards for Favourite Book. His Dream Job at first was to be a newspaper cartoonist but then he came up with diary of a wimpy kid in 1998, he worked on the book for about 8 years before it got published.