Author: Jeff Kinney Jeff Kinney is a New York Times bestselling author known for his series Diary of a Wimpy Kid and the Rupert books. He has won the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Book six times. Time Magazine named him one of the hundred most influential people in the world. Jeff Kinney spent his childhood near Washington, D.C., and later moved to New England, where he and his wife own a bookstore called An Unlikely Story.