![]() ![]() ![]() I realized that somewhere in that sentence was the boy I was really trying to find." After five years of research and composition, Chbosky published the novel in 1999 the book became a bestseller. ![]() In a 2001 interview with Ann Beisch of LA Youth, Chbosky described the initial stages of the project: "I was writing a very different type of book than Perks, but then I wrote the line, 'I guess that's just one of the perks of being a wallflower.' And I stopped. Following this initial success, Chbosky spent the 1990s writing screenplays that went unpublished, but in 1994 he began work on the novel he is now most famous for - The Perks of Being a Wallflower. 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.Ĭhbosky 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. Clair High School he met Stewart Stern, the screenwriter of Rebel Without a Cause, and the two became close friends. ![]() Salinger's novel, The Catcher in the Rye. He grew up in a Catholic family made up of his mother, father, and younger sister. Stephen Chbosky is a novelist, screenwriter, and director who was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 25, 1970. ![]()
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