Lincoln Peirce (pronounced "purse") was born on October 23, 1963 (age 52) in Iowa. He is a cartoonist, writer, and illustrator best known as the creator of the syndicated comic strip called Big Nate which debuted in 1991 and appears in 300 newspapers in the U.S. It also appears online daily at comics.com, GoComics, and Poptropica. Jeff Kinney explains that he was inspired by the Big Nate comic strips to create Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
Lincoln grew up in New Hampshire where he attended high school then attended college in Maine where he created a weekly comic strip called "Third Floor" for the school newspaper.
According to the Big Nate website, Lincoln is not related anyhow to the president Franklin Pierce as he was once mistaken for.
He later earned a graduate degree from a different college and also studied at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He taught art and coached baseball at a boys' high school in New York City for three years before moving to Maine in 1992 and started writing. In addition to Big Nate, Lincoln has written several animated shorts for Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon.
He also gives lectures to students about cartoon creating. Lincoln's New York Times bestselling novels have been featured on Good Morning America and in the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and The Washington Post. He currently lives with his wife and two children in Portland, Maine. You can check out Scott Nickel's fascinating 20 questions with him on his blog.
According to the Big Nate website, Lincoln is not related anyhow to the president Franklin Pierce as he was once mistaken for.
He also gives lectures to students about cartoon creating. Lincoln's New York Times bestselling novels have been featured on Good Morning America and in the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and The Washington Post. He currently lives with his wife and two children in Portland, Maine. You can check out Scott Nickel's fascinating 20 questions with him on his blog.
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