史蒂夫·克洛夫斯出生于德克萨斯州奥斯汀，在加利福尼亚州桑尼维尔长大，毕业于弗里蒙特高中。他就读于加州大学洛杉矶分校，但在第三年没有被电影学院录取时辍学了。作为好莱坞经纪人的无薪实习生，他因自己写的剧本《秋千》而受到关注。这导致了一次会议，他成功地推销了《与月球赛跑》（1984）。他第一次接触专业编剧的经历使他希望与演员进行更多的互动，以便角色能够忠于他的愿景。克洛夫斯写了《神话般的贝克男孩》，并打算将其作为他的导演处女作。经过多年试图在好莱坞推销这个项目，这部电影终于起步并于 1989 年上映。《神话般的贝克男孩》表现相当不错，但他在 1993 年担任《血肉之躯》的编剧/导演的下一部电影票房表现不佳。克洛夫斯随后停止了三年的写作。意识到他必须重新开始写作以养家糊口，他开始将迈克尔·查邦的小说《神奇小子》改编成剧本。克洛夫斯有机会执导，但他拒绝了，宁愿只执导自己的原创作品。这是他第一次尝试将另一部作品改编成电影。2000年电影上映后，他的剧本获得了金球奖和奥斯卡金像奖的提名。华纳兄弟向克洛夫斯发送了一份公司正在考虑改编成电影的小说清单。该列表包括第一部哈利波特小说，尽管他通常对这些目录漠不关心，但这引起了他的兴趣。他继续为该系列的前四部电影编写剧本。在迈克尔·戈登伯格（Michael Goldenberg）为第五部电影写完剧本后，克洛夫斯（Kloves）又回来写了第六部，第七部和第八部。截至2011年，克洛夫斯正在制作一部改编自马克·哈登（Mark Haddon）小说《夜间狗的奇怪事件》（The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time）的电影，他将编剧和导演。他还有一份尚未制作的奇幻电影《阿基拉》的草稿。

Stephen Keith Kloves (born March 18, 1960) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. He wrote and directed the film The Fabulous Baker Boys and is mainly known for his screenplay adaptations of novels, especially for all but one of the Harry Potter films (the exception being The Order of the Phoenix) and for Wonder Boys, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Kloves, born in Austin, Texas, grew up in Sunnyvale, California, where he graduated from Fremont High School. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, but dropped out when he was not admitted into the film school in his third year.

As an unpaid intern for a Hollywood agent, he gained attention for a screenplay he wrote called Swings. This led to a meeting where he successfully pitched Racing with the Moon (1984).

His first experience with professional screenwriting left him wanting more interaction with the actors so that the characters would stay true to his vision. Kloves wrote The Fabulous Baker Boys and also intended it to be his directorial debut. After years of trying to sell the project in Hollywood, the film finally got off the ground and was released in 1989. The Fabulous Baker Boys did reasonably well and was critically acclaimed, but his next shot as writer/director for Flesh and Bone in 1993 fared poorly at the box office. Kloves then stopped writing for three years.

Realising that he had to return to writing to support his family, he began adapting Michael Chabon's novel Wonder Boys into a screenplay. Kloves was offered the chance to direct, but he declined, preferring to direct only his own original work. This was his first try at adapting another work to film. His screenplay was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award after the film's release in 2000.

Warner Bros. sent Kloves a list of novels that the company was considering adapting as films. The listing included the first Harry Potter novel, which intrigued him despite his usual indifference to these catalogs. He went on to write the screenplays for the first four films in the series. However, he turned down writing the fifth film, stating that "The fourth film, Goblet of Fire, was really hard to do. I wrote on it for two years. But it’s not that simple, and I don't know that I'll ever fully understand why I didn't do it." After Michael Goldenberg wrote the screenplay for the fifth film, Kloves then returned to write the sixth, seventh, and eighth installments.

In 2011, Kloves was attached to work on a film adaptation of Mark Haddon's novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Since 2016, Kloves produced the Fantastic Beasts films, a spinoff prequel series to the main Harry Potter series. Kloves co-wrote the third installment with J.K. Rowling.

Kloves produced the Andy Serkis-directed movie, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle. His daughter, Callie, wrote the screenplay.

Kloves is now set to write the screenplay for the film adaptation of T. J. Newman's novel Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421 for Warner Bros.

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Stephen Keith Kloves ist ein US-amerikanischer Drehbuchautor und Filmregisseur, der vor allem für seine Adaptionen von Harry-Potter-Romanen und Die WonderBoys bekannt ist. Zusätzlich Regie führte er bei den Filmen Die fabelhaften Baker Boys und Flesh & Bone.