Stephen Chbosky

Stephen Chbosky is an American novelist, screenwriter and film director, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in the suburb of Upper St. Clair. He studied screenwriting at the University of Southern California. His first novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999), became a long-running young adult favourite, and he adapted and directed the 2012 film version himself.

He edited the 2000 anthology Pieces, and published the horror novel Imaginary Friend in 2019. In film and television he wrote the screenplay for Rent (2005), co-created the CBS series Jericho, and directed Wonder (2017) and Dear Evan Hansen (2021).