Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw

Jeff Kinney was born in 1971 in Maryland and 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 where he knew he wanted to be a cartoonist. After failed attempts to gain work as a professional cartoonist, he landed a job as a web developer for Pearson Education and has since worked on the massively popular virtual world of Pop Tropica and the very successful educational website Funbrain.com.

Jeff spent six years writing the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid, which he then published in daily instalments on Funbrain.com. Publisher Abrams in the US, noticing the phenomenal popularity of the cartoons, then published it in book form turning Jeff’s long-held dream into a reality. In 2009, Jeff Kinney was voted one of TIME magazine's Top 100 Most Influential People. Jeff lives with his family in southern Massachusetts, USA.