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  • Jeffrey Kinney was born and grew up in Fort Washington, Maryland, United States. He attended the University of Maryland at College Park in the early 1990s
  • He also created the kid-friendly website Poptropica, which is known by many children around the world.
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  • Jeffrey "Jeff" Kinney (born February 19, 1971) is an American game designer, cartoonist, producer, and author of children's books including the Diary of a Wimpy Kid book series. He is also attributed as the creator of the child-oriented website Poptropica
  • Jeffrey "Jeff" Kinney (born February 19, 1971)
  • Born Jeffrey Kinney (1971-02-19) February 19, 1971 (age 41)
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2007) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2008) Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book (2008, revised and expanded in 2011) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (2009) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2009) The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary (2010, expanded in 2011) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth (2010) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever (2011) Diary of a Wimpy Kid 7 (2012)
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      these are some of his books
  • Kinney works full-time as a writer and designer of online games.
  • Poptropica even includes a world called "Wimpy Wonderland", where the Diary of a Wimpy Kid
  • characters and events are featured in the Poptropica universe.
  • The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series has 58 million copies in print
  • worldwide as of 2010 and was developed into a feature film, for which Kinney served as executive producer.
  • lives in Plainville, Massachusetts[
  • with his wife, Julie, and two sons, Will and Grant
  • A second film, based on Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, was released on March 25, 2011. A third film, based on The Last Straw and Dog Days, will be released on August 3, 2012.
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    This is when Jeff Kinney was born.
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  • There are in total six Diary of a Wimpy Kid books, each of them treats a specific topic: - The first book, Diary of a Wimpy Kid is about Greg, Rowley, and the Cheese Touch. - The second book, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules is about Greg, Rodrick, the Mom Bucks program, and the school talent show. - The third book, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw is about the conflict between Greg and his father, Holly Hills, the soccer team, and Spag Union Military Academy. - The fourth book, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days is about Greg's bad summer vacation, his mom, and their new dog, Sweetie. The fifth book, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth is about Greg and Rowley's disfriendship, his great-grandmother Gammie, puberty, and his Uncle Gary's engagement. - The sixth book, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever is about his brother Manny, the playground, accidental vandalism, Christmas, and the blizzard.
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      Lots of info on jeff kinney
  • On his last visit to the UK, Kinney was a backpacker. Now he is one of the most successful children's auth
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  • The Wimpy Kid format is simple. Each book is full of handwritten notes to make it look as though it is Greg's diary and the pages are peppered with cartoon illustrations of his day-to-day life. The plots are paper-thin but the jokes come thick and fast – and the results have been staggering. The books have been translated into 30 languages and have sold more than 50m copies worldwide – close to 9m in the UK. The first two titles have been made into movies which, while they may not have appealed to the critics, made more than $147m at the box office. Kinney himself was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2009, something he actually thought was a practical joke ("I'm not even the most influential person in my own house," he said at the time).
  • d book. The first was published just four years ago by a small American art-book publisher with a print-run of only 15,000. Like all the others, the new title describes the ups and downs, trials and tribulations of the everyday life of Greg Heffley, a likable, self-obsessed 12-year-old desperate to fit in at school, hugely impatient to grow up and tormented by his amoral older brother, his pesky baby brother and his well-meaning parents. This time, Greg and his family are snowed in over the holidays, leading to all kinds
  • of domestic mayhem
  • ors on the planet and today he is digesting the news that his latest book, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever, has leapt straight into the No 1 slot in the British children's book bestseller charts. Its predecessor, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth, published last year, was said to have sold at the rate of one book every 11 seconds. "It is still pretty hard to take in," Kinney admits with a lopsided grin. "I feel like I'm watching it happen to someone else. It's a bit like being in The Truman Show."This is the sixth Wimpy K
  • Brought up on a diet of Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge and The Far Side, Kinney dreamed as a student of becoming a newspaper cartoonist but says modestly that his "lack of talent as an illustrator" put paid to that ambition. Instead, he took a job after college as a graphic and layout designer on a local newspaper and went on to conceive and set up Poptropica, an educational gaming site for children. As if to confirm the impression I've been getting that his global success as an author has not quite sunk in, Kinney tells me he still works for Poptropica full-time."They are very understanding when I need to go on book tours, but when I get back to my normal life it is nine-to-five every day. I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby," he says, albeit an incredibly time-consuming one. Each book takes nine months of evenings and weekends to finish, leaving little time for anything else. Luckily, his wife, Julie, is "very supportive" and his sons, Will, nine, and Grant, six, enjoy watching him draw – "so I spend time with them that way". A self-confessed big kid, who would happily eat "junk cereal" for every meal, he has also just become cub-scout master for his boys' local troop in Plainville, Massachussets, which he is "very excited about".
  • When Kinney first had the idea for the Wimpy Kid he thought it would be a one-off nostalgic book for adults. "I never thought I was writing for kids at all," he explains. "It really shocked and unsettled me to hear kids were buying the books. If I'd known I was writing for kids I might actually have spelt things out a bit more and that would probably have killed the appeal."
  • He thinks the fact his characters have a slightly knowing, adult perspective is one of the qualities children find appealing. "Kids can sniff out when they are being preached to and they don't like it," he says. "So while my books aren't amoral they are not infused with morals or a message either and kids like that. They also like the fact that Greg is awkward and imperfect. He's not better than them at everything; he's struggling to manage life just as they are."
  • The look of the books is as important as the storyline and characters, he says. "When a kid picks up one of my books it lets them understand straight away that this is not work."
  • While he has not read Wimpy Kid's closest British cousin, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Kinney draws a parallel between Greg and Holden Caulfield of The Catcher in the Rye: "In both cases you have a slightly unreliable narrator who is very cocksure and certain that his view of the world is the correct one – there might well be an unconscious relationship between my character and JD Salinger's.
  • Holden Caulfield made only one literary outing but Greg's appearances in print have become an annual event (publication day this year was dubbed Wimpy Kid Wednesday by the book trade). But while there is another movie in the pipeline, Kinney is not planning to carry on the series indefinitely. "Success has come so quickly I'm reluctant to think about bringing it to an end, but every creative endeavour has a lifespan and the best creators know when to end things. I think the optimum length for the series will be somewhere between seven and 10, a bit like Harry Potter. I don't want to overstay my welcome."
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  • born June 5, 1964)[
  • best known for writing the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series
  • He graduated from Alamo Heights High School in 1982 and the University of Texas at Austin in 1986
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  • Rick was raised in Texas.
  • He was awarded St. Mary's Hall's first Master Teacher Award in 2002
  • The multi-award-winning[8] Tres Navarre
  • The Lightning Thief (2005) The Sea of Monsters (2006) The Titan's Curse (2007) The Battle of the Labyrinth (2008) The Demigod Files (2009)[13] The Last Olympian (2009) The Lightning Thief: The Graphic Novel (2010)
  • The Lost Hero (2010) The Son of Neptune (2011) The Demigod Diaries – August 14, 2012[14] The Mark of Athena – Fall 2012 Book 4 – Spring 2013 Book 5 – Winter 2013
  • The Maze of Bones (2008)[15] The Black Book of Buried Secrets (2010) Vespers Rising (2011)
  • Big Red Tequila (1997) Widower's Two-Step (1998) The Last King of Texas (2000) The Devil Went Down to Austin (2001) Southtown (2004) Mission Road (2005) Rebel Island (2007)
  • Cold Springs (2004)[20]
  • 2010 School Library Journal's Best Book for The Red Pyramid [24] 2011 Children's Choice Book Awards: Author of the Year[25] 2011 Children's Choice Book Awards: Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade Book of the Year for The Red Pyramid[25]
  • He is currently working on the third books of two new series: The Kane Chronicles, which focuses on Egyptian mythology; and The Heroes of Olympus, which is the sequel to the Percy Jackson series and which focuses on Greek and Roman mythology.
  • ; he authored several of its books, including The Maze of Bones, which topped the New York Times Best Seller list on September 28, 2008.
  • The Red Pyramid (2010)[16] The Throne of Fire (2011)[17] The Serpent's Shadow – May 1, 2012[18] The Kane Chronicles Survival Guide – March 20, 2012[19] The Red Pyramid: Graphic Novel – October 2, 2012
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      Good info about his books
  • Rick Riordan
  • He also wrote the Tres Navarre mystery series for adults
  • Rick Riordan lives in San Antonio with his wife and their two sons Haley and Patrick, Haley is the inspiration for his Percy Jackson series.
  • . Its first book, The Red Pyramid, was released on May 4, 2010; the sequel, The Throne Of Fire, was released on May 3, 2011.[
  • The third book in the Kane Chronicles, The Serpent's Shadow, is expected to be released on May 1, 2012.
  • Percy Jackson books, The Heroes of Olympus. Its first book, The Lost Hero, was released in the U.S. on October 12, 2010; the sequel, The Son of Neptune, was released on October 4, 2011. Riordan plans to expand both series simultaneously. "The Heroes of Olympus" will have five books, and "The Kane Chronicles" will be a trilogy.
  • Twentieth Century Fox purchased the film rights and released a feature film on February 12, 2010.
  • Jackson and the Olympians series features a twelve-year-old boy who discovers he is the modern-day son of an ancient Greek
  • The Lost Hero (2010) The Son of Neptune (2011) The Demigod Diaries – August 14, 2012[14] The Mark of Athena – October 2012 Book 4 – Spring 2013 Book 5 – Winter 2013
  • 1998 Shamus Award and Anthony Award for Big Red Tequila[8] 1999 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original for The Widower's Two-Step[2
  • 2008 Mark Twain Award for The Lightning Thief[22] 2009 Mark Twain Award for The Sea of Monsters[22]
  • 2009 Rebecca Caudill Award for The Lightning Thief[23]
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    Rick Riordan's published books and life
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      Dylan, my son, has read EVERY book he has ever written.
  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid in 1998,
  • Jeff was named one of the 20 Artists & Entertainers in The TIME 100,
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  • Jeff Kinney is an online game developer, designer, the creator of Poptropica.com,
  • Born in Maryland in the 1970s, Jeff spent his childhood in the Washington, D.C
  • Jeff attended the University of Maryland in the early 1990s. It was there that he ran a comic strip called "lgdoof" in the campus newspaper and knew that he wanted to be become a newspaper strip cartoonist.
  • Jeff lives Plainville, Massachusetts with his wife and their two sons.
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  • "Kinney has a gift for believable preteen dialogue and narration, and the illustrations serve as a hilarious counterpoint to Greg's often deadpan voice
  • it wasn't until spring of 2007 that his book was published — and quickly became a New York Times bestseller, eventually reaching the number one spot. 
  • Publishers Weekly, starred Review, on Diary of a Wimpy Kid
  • "The real and deeper appeal of Greg;s story is the unapologetic honesty of his adolescence; he comes across as a real kid, and his story is one that will appeal to all those real kids who feel just like him." — Booklist, on Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
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    facts about Jeff Kinney's life are on the url above
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    Jeff Kinney is AWESOME!
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  • Family Education Network's Jeff Kinney has gone from "Wimpy Kid" to one of "Time" magazine's 100 most influential people of 2009. Kinney, design director for the family of educational and informative Web sites and author of the global bestseller "Diary of a Wimpy Kid ," joined world leaders and pop stars, actors and environmentalists on this annual list of the people who most affect our world.
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  • About this author
  • Jeff Kinney is an author of children's books including Diary of a Wimpy Kid book series. Jeff was born in College Park, Maryland, in 1971 where he created a comic strip called "Igdoof."He also created the children's website 'Poptropica'.
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  • Jeff Kinney works full-time as a developer and designer of online games.Jeff Kinney's 1st and 2nd Wimpy kid books have already hit the big screen.According to his website, he also created the kid-friendly website Poptropica. Kinney grew up in Fort Washington, Maryland, United States and attended the University of Maryland at College Park in the early 1990s. It was in college that Kinney created the popular comic strip Igdoof that ran in the campus newspaper, The Diamond Back. While there, he knew that he wanted to be a cartoonist. However, Kinney was not successful in getting his comic strip syndicated after college, and in 1998, he started writing his ideas which would eventually become Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Loosely based on his childhood, the series had sold close to 16 million copies world wide as of 2009 and has been developed into a feature film, which Kinney also served as an executive producer.To date, six Wimpy Kid books have been released, plus a do-it-yourself book.In 2009 Kinney was named one of Time magazine's 100 "Most Influential People" in the world.The Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Kinney's most popular book, is about a kid named Greg who is trying to fit in and have fun during the process. He and his friend are always finding small ways to get into huge trouble.He has been making a lot of money out of the Diary Of a Wimpy Kid Series
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      jeff kinney makes online games
  • http://www.wimpykid.com/
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    i love his books
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    This is a video about Jeff Kinney and how he started his series Diary of a Wimpy Kid
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      I have only read one of Meg Cabot's books and it was one of the best I have ever read!
  • February 1, 1967 • Bloomington, Indiana
  • by early 2006 she had published forty-four works of fiction
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  • In 2000, however, Cabot hit the jackpot when she penned The Princess Diaries, a young adult novel that quickly caught on with readers primarily because the wryly humorous author was able to accurately capture "teen-speak."
  • In 1997, at the age of thirty, a dejected Meg Cabot was ready to throw in the towel as a writer. Less than a decade later she had become one of the most well-known YA authors in America.
  • Cabot writes in her pajamas in two homes: one located in New York City, the other in Key West, Florida. She shares both homes with her husband, Ben, a poet and financial marketer, and their one-eyed cat, Henrietta.
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    This is the picture that Meg Cabot took for the "Princess Diaries" she wrote and published!
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  • Meg was born on February 1, 1967 in Bloomington, Indiana.
  • Meg went to college at Indiana University where she studied studio arts.
  • the story is about a regular girl Mia who finds out that she's actually the princess of the country of Genovia. She's not ready for this and goes through a series of adventures which fill her diaries over the years.
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  • She said she didn't study creative writing because a boy she met at a party told her college would ruin writing for her and she didn't want that (she would later marry that same boy).
  • Allie Finkle's Rule for Girls series
  • Moving Day (2008) The New Girl (2008) Best Friends and Drama Queens (2009) Stage Fright (2009) Glitter Girls and the Great Fake Out (2010) Blast From the Past (2010)
  • The Princess Diaries Series
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    This Website Tells You Great Information About Meg Cabot's Books And Also A Little About Herself!
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  • It is regarded that Jeff Kinney became a writer because of his grandmother’s influence and drawing on his own influences. Jeffrey ‘Jeff’ Kinney was born on February 19, 1971.
  • Jeff Kinney has been a long creator of cartoons and comic strips even when he was younger back in his college days. It was actually when he spent time at college that Kinney had the idea to develop and create the popular comic strip Igdoof that ran in the campus newspaper, The Diamondback.
  • While Kinney was spending his days at college, he always knew that he had the desire and determination to forge a career as a cartoonist. But Kinney was not successful in getting his comic strip syndicated by the time he left college. And in 1998, he began to start writing his ideas which would result in becoming what now is better known as his successful Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
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      Jeff Kinney is a professional football player Kinney was the second of three Nebraska he is also a very good writer on children s books
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      Sorry, but that is not true. He is not a football player, but a game designer/author
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  • is a former professional football
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  • player, a running back for the Kansas City Chiefs
  • Kinney was born in Oxford, Neb., and raised in McCook
  • He played college football at Nebraska under head coach Bob Devaney
  • Kinney was the second of three Nebraska Cornhuskers selected in the first round of the 1972 NFL Draft; QB Jerry Tagge was taken 11th by his hometown team, the Green Bay Packers, and DT Larry Jacobson was selected by the New York Giants with the 24th overall pick, immediately after Kinney.
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    no obviously not the author parts true though
  • Nathanael Nix on 11 Apr 12
     
    Dude come on!!! don't say things that aren't true!!! he is definitely NOT!!!!! a football player! DUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
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