The Abstinence Teacher
St. Martin's Press, 2007

Little Children
St. Martin's Press, 2004

Joe College
St. Martin's Press, 2000

Election
Putnam, 1998

The Wishbones
Putnam, 1997

Bad Haircut: Stories from the Seventies
Bridgeworks, 1994

Tom Perrotta grew up in New Jersey and currently lives in Boston where he teaches expository writing at Harvard University. Perrotta received his B.A. in English from Yale University and his M.A. in Creative Writing from Syracuse University.

The theme of ordinary people trapped in lives they never imagined runs throughout Perrotta's novels; from the aspiring-rock-stars-turned-wedding band in The Wishbones to the disillusioned high school teachers in Election. Success for Perrotta's characters is always just out of reach, and the world is always just outside of their control. Characters that seem destined for success, like Election's Tracy Flick, serve as foils to the true protagonists, constant reminders of the unfairness of life.

Perrotta moved into the public eye when Election was made into the much-beloved film starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon.

To learn more about Tom and his work, please visit www.tomperrotta.net.