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Stephen Chbosky is a novelist, screenwriter, and director who was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 25, 1970. He grew up in a Catholic family made up of his mother, father, and younger sister. As a teenager, Chbosky was moved by J.D. Salinger's novel, The Catcher in the Rye. Upon graduation from Upper St. Clair High School he met Stewart Stern, the screenwriter of Rebel Without a Cause, and the two became close friends. After writing The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Chbosky revealed that the character Bill, a literature teacher, was based on Stern and reflected the positive influence of Stern on his own development.

Chbosky left Pittsburgh to attend the University of Southern California's Film Writing Program, where he began work on his first film, The Four Corners of Nowhere, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Following this initial success, Chbosky spent the 1990s writing screenplays that went unpublished, but in 1994 he began work on the novel he is now most famous fo

Stephen Chbosky

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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Wonder (Wonder, #1)
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Imaginary Friend
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Pieces: A Collection of New Voices
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Screenplay
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Den osynlige vännen, del 2 (Imaginary Friend, #2)
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XXL-Leseprobe: Der unsichtbare Freund
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Planeta de Libros. Volumen 5
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Coming of Age - 4 Novels
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Stephen Chbosky was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 25, 1972, to Fred, a former CFO consultant, and Lea, a tax preparer. He grew up in Upper St. Clair, graduating from the local high school. He received his Bachelor of the Fine Arts degree from the University of Southern California's film writing program in 1992.

Chbosky is a screenwriter, television writer, and stage writer. His first film, The Four Corners of Nowhere, which he wrote the screenplay for and also directed, premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. The film won Narrative Feature honors at the Chicago Underground Film Festival. According to an All Movie Guide plot description written by Sandra Brennan, The Four Corners of Nowhere is a "humorous film [that] attempts to explain the nihilistic attitudes and terminal ennui of the X-generation." The film follows the lives, relationships, and opinions of a group of twentysomethings living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In addition to his honors for The Four Corners of Nowhere, Chbosky has been

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