Charles Stuart Kaufman is an American filmmaker and novelist. His work is distinguished by postmodernist and surrealist storytelling, with many critics considering him an auteur. Getting his start as a television writer, Kaufman gained prominence for his collaborations with directors Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry on Being John Malkovich (1999), Adaptation (2002), and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), before going on to direct films himself with Synecdoche, New York (2008), Anomalisa (2015), and I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020). In 2020, he released a novel, Antkind.

Adaptation
2002
ISBN 9781557045119
Being John Malkovich
2000
ISBN 9780571205868
A Cage Went in Search of a Bird
2024
ISBN 9780349146393
A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories
2024
ISBN 9781646222636
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script
2003
ISBN 9781557046109
Anomalisa
2016
ISBN 9780789332561
Network security
1995
ISBN 9780136643524
Human nature
2002
ISBN 9781557045096
Network Security
2002
ISBN 9788178087900
Network Security
2002
ISBN 9788120322134
Synecdoche, New York
2008
ISBN 9781557048134
Antkind
2020
ISBN 9780008319496