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{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->
| name = Stephen Chbosky
| image = Stephen Chbosky, Jericho Panel at Comic Con SD 2006 cropped.jpg
| caption = Chbosky on the ''Jericho'' panel at Comic Con San Diego, 2006
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1970|1|25}}
| birth_place = [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]
| occupation = [[author|Novelist]], [[screenwriter]], [[film director]]
| genre =
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==Early life==

Chbosky was born in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]], and raised in the Pittsburgh suburb of [[Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania|Upper St. Clair]], [[Pennsylvania]].<ref name=pabook1
/>{{cite web|last=Thompson|first=Elizabeth|authorlink=|coauthors=|title=Chbosky, Stephen|publisher=Google Books|year=2007|url=http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Chbosky__Stephen.html|accessdate=2010-05-20}}</ref> He is the son of Lea (née Meyer), a tax preparer, and Fred G. Chbosky, a steel company executive and consultant to [[Chief financial officer|CFO]]s.<ref name=pabook1/><ref>[http://books.google.ca/books?id=B_X_xrmOlIAC&q=Lea+Meyer+Chbosky&dq=Lea+Meyer+Chbosky&source=bl&ots=mXAsSXil4i&sig=Sdh2DlNNpg3p6CfWa86ESHSuQmk&hl=en]</ref><ref name=pabook1>{{cite web|last=Thompson|first=Elizabeth|authorlink=|coauthors=|title=Chbosky, Stephen|publisher=Google Books|year=2007|url=http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Chbosky__Stephen.html|accessdate=2010-05-20}}</ref><ref name= "trib">Blank, Ed.  [http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_396885.html "Movie musical brings dream to life for screenwriter"], [[Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]], 2005-11-22.  Retrieved on 2008-01-04.</ref> Chbosky has a sister, Stacy.<ref>[http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/ae/movies/the-perks-of-a-pittsburgher-back-home-stephen-chbosky-directs-a-film-version-of-his-novel-300127/?print=1]</ref> He was raised Catholic.<ref>http://vancie917.files.wordpress(contracted; show full)[[Category:21st-century American writers]]
[[Category:American film directors]]
[[Category:American novelists]]
[[Category:American screenwriters]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:University of Southern California alumni]]
[[Category:Writers from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Writers of young adult literature]]