Jeff Kinney was born on 29th February, 1971 in Ohio and attended the University of Maryland in the early 1990s. He is an online game developer and designer, as well as a #1 New York Times best-selling author. In 2009, Jeff was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. He spent his childhood in the Washington, DC area and moved to New England in 1995. Kinney lives in south Massachusetts with his wife and their two sons.