![]() ![]() ![]() Tolkien, and John Irving, and decided early in his life that he wanted to be a writer. Perrotta enjoyed reading authors such as O. ![]() 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. 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. He is also known for his novel The Leftovers (2011), which has been adapted into a TV series on HBO. 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. 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. ![]()
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