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Contents • • • • • • • • • • Biography [ ] Tom Perrotta was born in, where he spent his entire childhood, and was raised. His father was an immigrant postal worker, whose parents emigrated from a village near,, and his mother is an immigrant former secretary, who stayed home to raise him along with his older brother and younger sister. Perrotta enjoyed reading authors such as,, and, 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 in from in 1983, and then received an in English/Creative Writing from. While at Syracuse, Perrotta was a pupil of, 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.

Career [ ] While teaching Creative Writing at Yale, Perrotta completed three novels that he had trouble getting published. One was, the story of an intense high-school election inspired by the three-candidate, and another was Lucky Winners, which remains unpublished as of 2007 and which Perrotta described in 2004 as 'a pretty good novel about a family that falls apart after winning the lottery.' In 1994, Perrotta published his first book, a collection of short stories titled Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies which called 'more powerful than any other.' The same year, Perrotta left Yale and began teaching expository writing. In 1997 he published The Wishbones, his first novel, which Perrotta has said is basically 'about my high school years.'

The unpublished manuscript of Election was optioned as a screenplay in 1996 by director, which then led to interest in publishing it as a book. A New History Of The Double Bass Paul Brun Pdf Converter. It arrived in bookstores in March 1998, followed shortly by its, which was released in April 1999 to critical acclaim.

The film, which starred and, helped popularize Perrotta as an author. 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, which explored the psychological and romantic depths beneath the surface of. Little Children was Perrotta's 'breakout book,' featured on numerous 'Best Books of 2004' lists—including those of,,, and magazine—and garnering tremendous praise for Perrotta. Dubbed him 'an American whose characters even at their most ridiculous seem blessed and ennobled by a luminous human aura,' and People called him 'the rare writer equally gifted at drawing people's emotional maps.and creating sidesplitting scenes.'

For his part, Perrotta describes himself as a writer in the 'plain-language American tradition' of authors such as and. In 2006, Perrotta sold an original screenplay he co-wrote with producer. Titled Barry and Stan Gone Wild, the screenplay is 'a shameless comedy [about] a 40-something dermatologist who goes on spring break.' In January 2007, Perrotta was on the guest faculty for the third annual Writers in Paradise conference at in. Perrotta was invited to teach at Eckerd by; the two writers had previously taught together at Stonecoast Writers Conference in.

Perrotta's novel,, was published on October 16, 2007. It is, according to the author, 'all about sex education and the. It's close in spirit to Little Children, I think.' It was chosen by as a 2007 Notable Book of the Year.

As of October 2007, he was working on a film adaptation of the book with directors. In 2010, 30,000 copies of his short story 'The Smile on Happy Chang's Face' were distributed as part of the 's 'One City, One Story' project. He has participated in turning his novel into an TV series of that began running in 2014. Bibliography [ ] Novels [ ] • The Wishbones (1997) • (1998) • Joe College (2000) • (2004) • (2007) • (2011) • Mrs.

Fletcher (2017) Ghostwritten Novels [ ] • The Thrill Club (early '90s) - R.L. Stine 'Fear Street' Series Short stories [ ] • 'The Weiner Man' (1988) • 'Wild Kingdom' (1988) • 'Forgiveness' (1989–1994) • 'The Smile on Happy Chang's Face' (2004) • 'Kiddie Pool' (2006) Short story collections [ ] • Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies (1994) • Nine Inches (2013) Essays [ ] • (2007) • References [ ]. Retrieved on 2007-07-09.

• ^ Crace, John (February 21, 2009)... Retrieved September 29, 2013. He was born in 1961 in Garwood, where he spent his entire childhood. His father was an Italian postal worker, his mother an Albanian-Italian - 'that made her a second-class Italian' - secretary. • ^ Rich, Motoko.,, 2007-10-14. Retrieved on 2007-10-20. • Fiamma, Florinda (March 1, 2012)...

Retrieved September 29, 2013. My paternal grandparents were Italian immigrants from a village near Avellino. I grew up hearing them and my dad talk Italian. My mother’s relatives were Albanians, but they, too, lived in Italy before emigrating to the States. • ^ Shanahan, Mark.,, 2006-10-18.

Retrieved on 2007-07-04. • ^ Schwartz, Missy.,, 2007-10-15. Retrieved on 2007-10-20. • ^ Bancroft, Colette.,, 2007-01-14. •, Official Web Site.

Retrieved on 2007-07-04. • Alter, Alexandra (August 29, 2013)... Retrieved September 29, 2013. Perrotta, who lives in Belmont, Mass. • McClurg, Jocelyn (September 4, 2013)...

Retrieved September 29, 2013. Perrotta, 52, who lives in the Boston suburb of Belmont, Mass. •, Barnesandnoble.com, 2004. • ^ Alexander, Kevin. 'Suburban Observer' (interview with Perrotta),, Dec.

• Blythe, Will.,, 2004-03-14. Retrieved on 2007-07-04. •, Official Web Site. Retrieved on 2007-10-20. • Jensen, Liz. Retrieved on 2014-06-05. Retrieved on 2014-06-05.

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