Tom Perrotta

Tom Perrotta is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for the novels Election (1998) and Little Children (2004), both of which were made into films. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film Little Children with Todd Field, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. His novel The Leftovers (2011) became an HBO series, which he co-created with Damon Lindelof. Among his other books is The Abstinence Teacher, a satire.