Jeffrey Patrick Kinney was born on February 19th 1971 in Prince Georges county Mary land.His moms name is Patricia and his dad is Brian.His two brothers names are Scott and Patrick and his sisters is Annmarie.As a kid his brothers and sister pranked him and in elimentrey he learnd that comedy hapens when people laugh with you not at you which helps him today.When he was in middle school he thought it was weird but he got used to it.He also liked to code programs on a computer at home,his middle school teachers loved his drawings so much they put his drawing in a display case in the halls to show his work.He enjoyed high school he liked a lot of his classes his favorite was art he even graduated therid in his class.In college he choose to be a cartoonist for the college newspaper his cartoon was called Igdoof and the main chriters name is Igdoof.Then he went to a new college a new college but cept Igdoof going but the college had a difrent cartoonist but he quit so Jeff tock the spot.everyone loved it but he wanted it to be better so he wrote leeters to Lincoln Peirce for tips and the tips helped.People liked his comics so much thay wanted atgrafs then after college some of his comics ware mailled to cartoon syndicates in the country while he waited he got married .He got a job as a newspaper then for Uptodate.He got in divorced andthe cartoon syndicates didnt like his comic but he staerted to gather information for diary of a wimpy kid.While he did that he worked for a copamny called Person Edacation.Then he met and mairred julie cullinane and thay had two sons will and grant.At a new york comic convention he met charles and charles helped Jeff a lot charles is jeffs editer.After a long time,in 2007 dairy of a wimpy kid was releasdand everyone loved it.Jeff cept going he got nicoleodn kids chose award 4 times.Hes on the 100 most influncial people the thered book is a best selling and he has opend a studio and book store.Jeff is alive today and creating books and comics.