Jeff Kinney
Teens & Children Pavilion
4:25 - 4:55 pm
Book Signing
1 - 2 pm
From the early 1990s, when he attended the University of Maryland, Jeff Kinney knew he wanted to be a cartoonist. The campus paper ran his comic strip, called “Igdoof.” In 1998, he began to formulate ideas for Diary of a Wimpy Kid. He published daily installment of the Diary online before releasing it as a book, which became a No. 1 New York Times best-seller. He followed that success with two other Diary books. The newest in the series is Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (2009). Jeff lives in Massachusetts.