Jeff Kinney is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series and the Awesome Friendly Kid series. He is a six-time Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award winner for Favorite Book and has been named one of Time magazine’ s 100 Most Influential People in the World. He spent his childhood in the Washington, D. C. , area and moved to New England, where he and his wife own a bookstore named An Unlikely Story.