“When you think back to your first kiss, your hair is perfect and she was wearing a cool outfit. We remember it with restraint and we remember it with style. We remember it as idealistically as you can think.”

American film director, screenwriter, and author

Stephen Chbosky is an American film director, screenwriter, and author. He is best known for the bestselling coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower, published in 1999, and for writing and directing its 2012 film adaptation. He later directed Wonder in 2017 and the film adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen in 2021. In 2019, he published his first psychological horror novel, Imaginary Friend.