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Jeffrey Patrick "Jeff" Kinney is an American game designer, cartoonist, producer, actor, movie director and author of children's books including the Diary of a Wimpy Kid book series.
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Q&A with Jeff Kinney by Scholastic
He is also attributed as the creator of the child-oriented website Poptropica.
Poptropica is an online role-playing game, developed in 2007 by Pearson Education's Family Education Network, and targeted towards children aged 6 to 15.
Jeff Kinney Greets Fans and Talks About Hard Luck by Abrams Books
He also appeared in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid films as Holly Hills's father.
Kinney was born and bought up in Fort Washington, Maryland, United States.
Maryland is a state located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east.
Fort Washington is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Prince George's County, Maryland.
He has an older brother, sister and a younger brother.
He attended the University of Maryland at College Park in the early 1990s.
The University of Maryland, College Park is a public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, approximately 4 miles from the northeast border of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1856, the university is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland.
It was in college that Kinney created a popular comic strip, Igdoof, which ran in the campus newspaper, The Diamondback.
The Diamondback is the award-winning independent student newspaper of the University of Maryland, College Park.
