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Tom Perrotta

Thomas R. Perrotta (born August 13, 1961) is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his novels ''Election'' (1998) and ''Little Children'' (2004), both of which were made into critically acclaimed, Academy Award-nominated films. Perrotta co-wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film version of ''Little Children'' with Todd Field, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. He is also known for his novel ''The Leftovers'' (2011), which has been adapted into a TV series on HBO.
==Biography==
Tom Perrotta was born in Garwood, New Jersey, where he spent his entire childhood, and was raised Roman Catholic in Garwood.〔Rich, Motoko. ("A Writer's Search for the Sex in Abstinence" ), The New York Times, 2007-10-14. Retrieved on 2007-10-20.〕 His father was an Italian immigrant postal worker, whose parents emigrated from a village near Avellino, Campania, and his mother is an Albanian-Italian immigrant former secretary, who stayed home to raise him along with his older brother and younger sister.〔〔〔Shanahan, Mark. ("Adaptation: Tom Perrotta is growing accustomed to seeing his books on the big screen" ), The Boston Globe, 2006-10-18. Retrieved on 2007-07-04.〕 Perrotta enjoyed reading authors such as O. Henry, J. R. R. Tolkien, and John Irving, and decided early in his life that he wanted to be a writer.〔 He was involved in his high school literary magazine, ''Pariah'', for which he wrote several short stories.〔Schwartz, Missy. ("The Q&A: Tom Perrotta: His Novel Take on Suburban Life" ), Entertainment Weekly, 2007-10-15. Retrieved on 2007-10-20.〕 Perrotta earned a B.A. in English from Yale University in 1983,〔 and then received an M.A. in English/Creative Writing from Syracuse University. While at Syracuse, Perrotta was a pupil of Tobias Wolff, whom Perrotta later praised for his "comic writing and moral seriousness."〔Bancroft, Colette. ("From page to screen" ), St. Petersburg Times, 2007-01-14.〕
Perrotta married writer Mary Granfield in 1991,〔("About Tom Perrotta" ), Official Web Site. Retrieved on 2007-07-04.〕 and lives in the Boston suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts.

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