![]() ![]() The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series has been a permanent fixture on the USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. There are now more than 275 million copies of the series in print worldwide. ![]() With each subsequent book, in-print numbers continue to grow exponentially both in the U.S. Just a year later, more than 100,000 copies were in print in the United States alone. The first Diary of a Wimpy Kid book was published in 2007 and became an instant bestseller. to turn Diary of a Wimpy Kid into a print series. In 2006, Jeff signed a multi-book deal with publisher Harry N. Jeff worked on the book for six years before publishing it online on in daily installments. ![]() However, Jeff was not successful getting his comic strip syndicated after college, and in 1998 he started writing down ideas for Diary of a Wimpy Kid, which he hoped to turn into a book. It was there that Jeff ran a comic strip called “Igdoof” in the campus newspaper. Jeff Kinney was born in 1971 in Maryland and attended the University of Maryland in the early 1990s. ![]() His dream was to become a newspaper cartoonist but he wasn’t able to get his comic strip syndicated. Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney didn’t grow up wanting to be a children’s author. ![]()
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