1. Stephen Chbosky is an American film director, screenwriter, and author.
16 Facts About Stephen Chbosky
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Stephen Chbosky is best-known for writing the bestselling coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower, as well as for writing and directing the 2012 film adaptation of the book.
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Stephen Chbosky is the son of Lea, a tax preparer, and Fred G Chbosky, a steel company executive and consultant to CFOs.
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Stephen Chbosky has a sister, Stacy, who is married to director John Erick Dowdle.
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Stephen Chbosky graduated from Upper St Clair High School in 1988, around which time he met Stewart Stern, screenwriter of the 1955 James Dean film Rebel Without a Cause.
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In 1992, Stephen Chbosky graduated from the University of Southern California's Filmic Writing, screenwriting program.
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Stephen Chbosky wrote, directed, and acted in the 1995 independent film The Four Corners of Nowhere, which gained Chbosky his first agent.
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The book, Stephen Chbosky's first novel, was published by Pocket Books in 1999, and was an immediate popular success with teenage readers; by 2000, the novel was MTV Books' best-selling title, and The New York Times noted in 2007 that it had sold more than 700,000 copies and "is passed from adolescent to adolescent like a hot potato".
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In 2000, Stephen Chbosky edited Pieces, an anthology of short stories.
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Stephen Chbosky wrote the screenplay for the 2005 film adaptation of the Broadway rock musical Rent, which received mixed reviews.
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In late 2005, Stephen Chbosky said that he was writing a film adaptation of The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
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Stephen Chbosky has said the relationship between Jake Green, the main character, and his mother, reflected "me and my mother in a lot of ways".
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Stephen Chbosky wrote the screenplay of and directed the film The Perks of Being a Wallflower, based on his novel.
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Stephen Chbosky was nominated in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for the 2013 Writers Guild Awards, and the film won the 2013 Independent Spirit Awards for Best First Feature, as well as the 2013 People's Choice Award for Best Dramatic Movie.
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Stephen Chbosky re-wrote Evan Spiliotopoulos original script for the 2017 live action reboot of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, directed by Bill Condon and starring Emma Watson as Belle and Dan Stevens as the Beast.
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Stephen Chbosky is heterosexual and credits screenwriter Stewart Stern with inspiring him to be a writer.