Tom Perrotta
Thomas R. Perrotta (born August 13, 1961 in Garwood , New Jersey ) is an American writer and screenwriter .
Life
Perrotta came from a Catholic Italian - Albanian family from Italy . When he was still at school, he wrote short stories for his school newspaper. He received his bachelor's degree in English from Yale University and then went to Syracuse University , where he graduated with a Master of Arts in creative writing . One of his teachers there was Tobias Wolff .
Perrotta subsequently went to Harvard University as a lecturer in creative writing . During these years he completed three novels, of which only two have been published to date. In 1994 he published a collection of short stories. His first novel, The Wishbones, followed in 1997 .
Perrotta's novel The Election was discovered by film director Alexander Payne as a template for a film and published as a book in 1998. The film itself was released in April 1999, starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon .
His 2004 novel Little Children was Perrotta's breakthrough. He has received many awards. The 2006 screenplay for the film, which he wrote with Todd Field , has been nominated for several film awards, including the 2007 Academy Awards . He then wrote other scripts, such as for Rob Greenberg's Barry and Stan Gone Wild . His novel The Leftovers (German: Die Verlassenen ) about how members of a small town family deal with the consequences of a puzzling global catastrophe is the template for the HBO series The Leftovers . HBO has also announced a film adaptation of his novel Mrs Fletcher (leading role: Kathryn Hahn ).
In 2007, Perrotta was visiting professor at the invitation of Dennis Lehane at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg (Florida) . The two writers had previously met at the Stonecoast Writers Conference in Portland, Maine .
Perrotta has been married since 1991 and lives with his wife and two children in the Boston suburb in Belmont, Massachusetts .
Publications
- Novels
- The Wishbones . Novel, 1997.
- Election . Novel, GP Putnam, New York City 1998, ISBN 0-399-14366-1 .
- Joe College . Novel, 2000.
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Little Children . Novel, St. Martin's Press, New York City 2004, ISBN 0-312-31571-6 .
- Little Children . Novel. Translated from the English from German by Sky Nonhoff , Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-550-08651-2 .
- The Abstinence Teacher . Novel, St. Martin's Press, New York City 2007, ISBN 978-0-312-35833-4 .
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The leftovers . Novel, St. Martin's Press, New York City 2011, ISBN 978-0-312-35834-1 .
- The forsaken . Novel. Translated from the English by Jan Schönherr , Heyne Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-453-26958-3 .
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Mrs. Fletcher . Novel, Scribner, 2018
- Mrs. Fletcher . Novel. Translated from the English by Johann Christoph Maass, dtv Verlagsgesellschaft , Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-423-28175-1
- Short stories
- The Weiner Man . 1988.
- Wild Kingdom . 1988.
- Forgiveness . 1989-1994
- The Smile on Happy Chang's Face . 2004.
- Kiddie pool . 2006.
- Collections of short stories
- Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies . Bridge Works publishing, Bridgehampton, New York 1994, ISBN 1-882593-05-7 .
- Nine inches . St. Martin's Press, New York City 2013, ISBN 978-1-250-03470-0 .
Web links
supporting documents
- ↑ Kathryn Hahn to star in HBO Comedy Pilot 'Mrs. Fletcher ' , variety.com, April 3, 2018, accessed June 5, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Perrotta, Tom |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Perrotta, Thomas R. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Garwood (New Jersey) , USA |