Tom Perrotta

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tom Perrotta
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Aug 13, 1961(1961-08-13)
Age	63
Birthplace	Garwood
Country	United States
Birth City	New Jersey
Horoscope	Leo

Tom Perrotta Biography

Tom Perrotta is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on August 13, 1961 in Garwood, New Jersey, United States. Italian-American screenwriter and author popular as the author of Election, Little Children, and Leftovers. Election as well as Little Children were adapted into films while Leftovers was made into an HBO series.

Kate Winslet and Jennifer Connelly both starred in Little Children. and Jennifer Connelly both played on the screen in Little Children.

Tom Perrotta was born in Newark, New Jersey and raised in Garwood, New Jersey, where he spent his entire childhood, and was raised Roman Catholic. 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. 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. 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.”

Perrotta married writer Mary Granfield in 1991, and lives in the Boston suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts.

He was married Mary Granfield in 1991 and has two children.

Tom Perrotta Net Worth

Tom Perrotta is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tom Perrotta 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a student of English in the English department at Yale University before receiving a master’s degree in the field at Syracuse University. His first novel comprised of stories in short form, was released in 1994.

He also wrote the books Joe College, The Wishbones as well as The Abstinence Teacher. His collaboration together with He’s also written the novels Joe College, The Wishbones, and The Abstinence Teacher. His work with Todd Field on the screenplay for Little Children earned him a Best Adapted Screen Play Academy Award nomination. on the screenplay for Little Children earned him a Best Adapted Screen Play Academy Award nomination.

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.

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Who is Tom Perrotta Dating?

According to our records, Tom Perrotta married to Mary Granfield. As of December 1, 2023, Tom Perrotta’s is not dating anyone.

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In 2010, 30,000 copies of his short story “The Smile on Happy Chang’s Face” were distributed as part of the Boston Book Festival’s “One City, One Story” project.

Facts & Trivia

Tom Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Tom Perrotta celebrates birthday on August 13 of every year.

Following Election, Perrotta shifted his focus to an older—though just as troubled—cast of characters: first with 2000’s Joe College, a comic journey into the dark side of higher education, love, and food service (which the author says is about his college years); and then with 2004’s Little Children, which explored the psychological and romantic depths beneath the surface of suburbia.

Where does Tom Perrotta live?

Perrotta speaks from his colonial-style home in Belmont , where he lives with his wife, Mary, and where they brought up a daughter, Nina, and a son, Luke. In this quiet, tree-lined suburb, he’s been happily recovering from a whirlwind year spent traveling between Los Angeles and New York.

Who wrote Election?

Tom Perrotta

Who wrote leftovers?

Tom Perrotta

What does Perrotta mean?

The surname Perrotta came from the personal name Pietro, or Peter, which is itself derived from the Greek word petrus meaning rock.

Is there season 2 of Mrs Fletcher?

The future of Mrs. Fletcher is based on a book by Tom Perotta, which does not have a sequel. This means that a second season would have to stray from its source material, which is not unheard of — and in fact is exactly what happened with another Perotta book, The Leftovers, which received three seasons on HBO.