![]() ![]() ![]() Since initial publication in 2007, the series has gone on to win many regional and national awards around the globe including two Children’s Choice Book Awards and six Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards for Favorite Book. The books are currently available in 79 editions in 65 languages. The series has remained on the New York Times bestseller lists since the publication of the first book, for more than 775 weeks total, and more than 350 on the series list. 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 250 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. ![]()
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