Jeff Kinney admits to growing up as an average ... Everybody walks out of there with a smile on their face.” Kinney is a champion of trying to get young people to fall in love with reading.

"It is really meaningful to me that people in their 20s and a little bit younger still have a place in their hearts for my books," the author tells PEOPLE Jeff Kinney remembers the exact moment he ...

Jeff Kinney began cartooning while he was attending the University of Maryland in the early 1990s. Loosely based on his own childhood, *Diary of a Wimpy Kid* was first published in daily installments ...