In the late 1990s, Chbosky wrote several unproduced screenplays. He was accepted by the Sundance Film Festival, and became one of the first films shown on the Sundance Channel. He wrote, directed, and acted in the 1995 independent film The Four Corners of Nowhere, which got Chbosky his first agent. In 1992, he graduated from the University of Southern California's screenwriting program. Scott Fitzgerald andĬhbosky graduated from Upper St.
Novel The Catcher in the Rye and the writing of F. His own writing was heavily influenced by J. He has a younger sister named Stacy, who is married to director John Erick Dowdle.īlend of the classics, horror, and fantasy. Driven by these laughable creatures, which confuse more than they entertain or stir, the boy enlists fellow 7-year-olds Matt, Mike and Special Ed to build a magical fort, which they locate on a tree that Chbosky describes, impossibly, as a “crooked hand ripping out of the earth’s cheek like a pimple.Pennsylvania on on Januto Lea and Fred G. He is inspired to action by a cloud that is shaped like a human but not a man or woman, a “nice man” who tells the boy what to do, and (no joke) a talking white plastic bag. ” Now, after two decades, he’s released a much-awaited second novel.Īt the center of the sprawling horror story “Imaginary Friend” is Kate and her son Chris, who is only 7 but already has witnessed his father’s suicide and been forced to move to a small town in Pennsylvania to escape Mom’s difficult boyfriend.Ĭhris isn’t a believable character.
Since then, Chbosky has directed a TV show, “Jericho,” and also the film “Wonder.
The hit film adaptation starred Emma Watson and was produced by John Malkovich. Quoted in more than a few college application essays, Stephen Chbosky’s 1999 novel “ The Perks of Being a Wallflower” is a moving and heartfelt portrait of teens suffering the indignities of high school.
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