Tom Perrotta

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Thomas R. Pereira (born August 13, 1961) is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his books Election (1998) and Little Children (2004), both of which were turned into critically acclaimed Academy Award-nominated films.

Persuaded Screenplay co-wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film version of Little Children with Todd Field, for which he was given an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.

He is also known for his book The Leftovers (2011), which has been turned into a HBO TV series.

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Career

Perrotta wrote three books that weren't widely published when he was studying creative writing at Yale. One was Election, the story of an intense high-school vote influenced by the 1992 United States presidential nomination, and the other was Lucky Winners, which remains unpublished as of 2005 and described as "a pretty good book about a family that falls apart after winning the lottery." Perrotta's first book, Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies, was published in 1994, "more poignant than any other coming-of-age story." Perpetuta left Yale and began teaching expository writing at Harvard University the following year. Perfett wrote The Wishbones, his first book, in 1997, which Perkins has characterized as "about my high school years." In 1996, director Alexander Payne's unpublished manuscript of Election was considered as a screenplay, which led to an interest in publishing it as a book. It appeared in bookstores in March 1998, followed shortly by its film adaptation, which was released in April 1999 to critical acclaim. Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon appeared in the film, which also promoted Perpetu as an author.

Perpeta changed his attention away from an older—but still struggling—cast of characters: first with 2000's Joe College, a humorous peek into higher education, passion, and food service (which the author claims is about his college years); and then with 2004's Little Children, which explored the psychological and romantic depths beneath the surface of suburbia.

Little Children was Perrotta's "breakout book" list, which included those from The New York Times Book Review, Newsweek, National Public Radio, and People magazine, and People magazine, as well as others—and receiving a lot of praise for Perrotta. The New York Times dubbed him "an American Chekhov whose characters, even at their most ridiculous, look ennobled by a luminous human aura," and People described him as "the rare writer equally gifted at drawing people's emotional charts" and making sideplitting scenes. Perpeta identifies himself as a writer in Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Carver's "plain-word American tradition."

Perpeta produced with Frasier producer Rob Greenberg an original screenplay in 2006. The screenplay stars Barry and Stan Gone Wild, "about" a 40-something dermatologist who goes on spring break. Pertina was on the guest faculty at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, for the third annual Writers in Paradise conference. Dennis Lehane invited Persua Perkins to speak at Eckerd; the two writers had previously attended the Stonecoast Writers Conference in Maine.

The Abstinence Teacher, Per Perpeta's book, was published on October 16, 2007. According to the author, "all about sex education and culture wars." I think it's closer to Little Children in spirit." The New York Times named it as a 2007 Notable Book of the Year. Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, who produced Little Miss Sunshine, were filming on a film version of the book as of October 2007.

As part of the Boston Book Festival's "One City, One Story" series, 30,000 copies of his short story "The Smile on Happy Chang's Face" were released in 2010.

He has been involved in converting his book The Leftovers into a HBO TV series of the same name that debuted in 2014 and has received critical acclaim for three seasons.

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