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Speaker: Jeff Kinney
Event Date: September 26, 2009
Running Time: 01:27
Description:
Best-selling author Jeff Kinney, who appeared at the 2009 National Book Festival, explains the secret of his success.
“Write for adults”
Speaker Biography:
From the early 1990s, when he attended the University of Maryland, Jeff Kinney knew he wanted to be a cartoonist. The campus paper ran his comic strip “Igdoof.” In 1998, he began to formulate ideas for “Diary of a Wimpy Kid.” He published daily installments of the “Diary” online before releasing it as a book, which became a New York Times best-seller. He followed that success with a series of “Diary” books.
