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Jeff Kinney

出生: February 19, 1971 – Fort Washington, Maryland, United States

Jeff Kinney is an American author, cartoonist, and game designer best known for the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, which blends illustrated middle-grade fiction with humor and school-life themes. His books have sold hundreds of millions of copies worldwide, inspired successful film adaptations, and made him one of children’s publishing’s most influential writers.

传记与作者历程

Jeff Kinney was born in Fort Washington, Maryland, in 1971 and came of age wanting to be a newspaper cartoonist rather than a conventional children’s author. At the University of Maryland, where he earned a 1993 degree in criminology and criminal justice, he drew the comic strip Igdoof for The Diamondback, an early sign of the dry humor and observational eye that would define his later work. After college, he worked in software, graphic design, and web-related jobs, carrying the disappointment of an unsyndicated strip into a broader search for a form that suited his voice. ((https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jeff-Kinney))

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名言

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If there is one lesson I’d like kids to take away from my stories, it is that reading is fun
-Let children read anything
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It really shocked and unsettled me to hear kids were buying the books
-I didn’t think I was writing Wimpy Kid for kids
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I bought a typewriter to try to beat back the distractions of the internet. That lasted about 20 minutes
-My writing day
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You can’t be a good writer without being a good reader first
-21 Questions with Jeff Kinney
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If anybody wants to be a cartoonist or a writer, the best thing you can do is read as much as you can because you can’t be a good writer without being a good reader
-Jeff Kinney Visits Storyvoice
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It was by accident. When I first started writing Diary of a Wimpy Kid, I thought I was writing for grown-ups
-A Q&A With Jeff Kinney
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I always wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist
-Jeff Kinney Brings Hot Mess to Connecticut School
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The journey really is what’s most important
-A Conversation With Jeff Kinney

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"Jeff Kinney has a gift for believable preteen dialogue and narration"

Publishers Weekly

"Jeff Kinney became one of the world’s most popular writers with Diary of a Wimpy Kid"

Associated Press

"Jeff Kinney, an icon in his own right, has sold more than 150 million Wimpy Kid books"

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"Jeff Kinney is perhaps best known as the creator of Greg Heffley, the wry adolescent hero of Kinney’s best-selling Wimpy Kid series"

Reading Rockets

"Jeff Kinney has crafted a worldwide fanbase through the comedy and candor of Diary of a Wimpy Kid"

The Boston Globe

"Author Jeff Kinney is a rock star in the publishing world"

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"Jeff Kinney is a literary superstar among pre-teens and their parents"

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"Jeff Kinney is the author who finally convinced my reluctant reader that books could be fun"

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