Writing
Stephen Chbosky
Born 1970-01-25 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Stephen Chbosky (born January 25, 1970) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director best-known for writing The New York Times bestselling coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999), as well as for writing and directing the film version of the same book, starring Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, and Ezra Miller. He also wrote the screenplay for the 2005 film Rent and Disney's 2017 live action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, alongside Evan Spiliotopoulos, and was co-creator, executive producer, and writer of the CBS television series Jericho, which aired from 2006 to 2008. Most recently, he directed the 2017 drama Wonder, starring Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, and Jacob Tremblay. His next novel, Imaginary Friend, was published in October 2019.
Acting credits
7.9Feature length documentary about Jonathan Larson and "Rent"'s journey from Broadway to the screen. Featuring director Chris Columbus, the entire cast, and dozens of friends and family of Jonathan Larson.
No Day But Today: The Story of 'Rent'
2006
7.0Seven recent graduates, underemployed and frustrated, reunite in their Michigan college town.
The Four Corners of Nowhere
1995
Behind the camera
7.0A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.
Beauty and the Beast
2017
7.8Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
2012
7.8Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
2012
8.1The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Wonder
2017
8.1The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Wonder
2017
6.1Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.
Allegiant
2016
6.8In New York City's gritty East Village, a group of bohemians strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.
Rent
2005
6.8After losing his beloved mother, a man risks everything to honor her by opening an Italian restaurant with actual nonnas — grandmothers — as the chefs.
Nonnas
2025
6.2Evan Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety, unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of a classmate who committed suicide mistakes one of Hansen’s letters for their son’s suicide note.
Dear Evan Hansen
2021
An autistic teenager wants to find a favorite Premiere League soccer club and makes his father take him to see every single team so he can decide.
Weekend Warriors
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An autistic teenager wants to find a favorite Premiere League soccer club and makes his father take him to see every single team so he can decide.
Weekend Warriors
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7.0Seven recent graduates, underemployed and frustrated, reunite in their Michigan college town.
The Four Corners of Nowhere
1995
7.0Seven recent graduates, underemployed and frustrated, reunite in their Michigan college town.
The Four Corners of Nowhere
1995
NRSeventeen-year-old Rune Kristiansen returns from Norway to the sleepy town of Blossom Grove, Georgia with one thing on his mind: to discover why Poppy Litchfield, his childhood friend who promised to wait faithfully for his return, broke his heart and fell silent two years ago. When he discovers the truth, he finds that the greatest heartache is yet to come.
A Thousand Boy Kisses
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A Thousand Broken Pieces
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