alexander grant kinsella name alex kinsella play by eric victorino birthdate & age june 20 & 26 screenname alex of vandals credits joe hill & max brooks biography Alexander Grant Kinsella was the second oldest boy of the six Kinsella children. Born in Louisa, Virginia, he had a fairly hard childhood. Always in the shadow of his oldest brother, Alexander quickly felt overlooked and overwhelmed at trying to live up to Garron's potential. It didn't help either that the twins came along not too long after him and they were looked at as special just given the fact that there were two of them. Alex was constantly trying to get his father's attention but he was always ignored. And although his mother babied him to make up for it, Alex suffered over the fact that his father seemed to want to have nothing to do with him. As he grew up this lack of a relationship with his father was reflected in most of the actions that he made. He threw himself into writing and largely ignored his brothers as best he could to avoid resenting them. Every time he finished anything he sent it off to publishers and to agents, though for the first two years his efforts turned up nothing but rejection slips. It wasn't until he turned sixteen and he finished his first published short story Pop Art that they finally sat up and took notice. It was a critically acclaimed story and earned him a contract for a novel. The next several years were spent in a whirlwind of traveling, writing and just trying to put out the next book. As he got older his relationship with his brothers got better and he always ended up back in Virginia even though his travels took him all over the world. Most recently, he's settled himself in Los Angeles where he is working on his latest novel and eagerly awaiting the release of the newest, finished Kinsella novel.