# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-perrotta
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:48:16.939Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-perrotta"
name: "Tom Perrotta"
slug: "tom-perrotta"
description: "Thomas R. Perrotta is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his novels Election (1998) and Little Children (2004), both of which were made into 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 was adapted into the critically acclaimed TV series on HBO, co-created by Perrotta and Damon Lindelof."
tagline: "American novelist and screenwriter (1961- )"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom_perrotta_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1961-08-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.296238693619136
  historical:           12.199692
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.tomperrotta.net"
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    title: "Tom Perrotta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Perrotta"
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    title: "Tom Perrotta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump