Analysis Of Stephen Chbosky s The Catcher Rye And F....

Stephen Chbosky was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on January 25,1970. â€Å"He is the son Lea, a taxpayer, and Fred B Chbosky, a steel company executive and consultants to CFO’s†. Stephen went to the University of South Carolina and received his bachelor s degree in Fine Arts in the film writing program of 1992. He was Stephen was greatly influenced by J. D. Salinger s novels â€Å"The Catcher in The Rye†and F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tennessee Williams. â€Å"Elizabeth Thompson said in Stephen Biography that†He married Liz Chbosky on September 18, 2010, they had a daughter named Maccie who was born in August†(Thompson 3).The Perks of Being a Wallflower is an epistolary novel that follows an intellectual and emotional maturation of a teenager who uses the alias of Charlie over the course of his first year of high school. The Perks of Being a Wallflower was banned because parent complained about the books decpetion of homosexualtiy, sex, masturbati on, and the use of alcohol and drugs. Elizabeth Thompson stated â€Å" 2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is the only controversial book that Stephen wrote. The reason people are labeling this book â€Å"controversial† due to Chbosky’s portrayals of teens sexuality and the alcohol and drug use. Erin Abbamondi, who also wrote a summary on why Stephen s book states that, â€Å" Chbosky only wrote one book that was shunned from public schools†(Banned 8). After reading Erin s banned book summary she stated why she felt the book should be banned. She believed