![]() ![]() ![]() ^ a b Crace, John (February 21, 2009).Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies (1994).'The Smile on Happy Chang's Face' (2004).The film, which starred Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon, helped popularize Perrotta as an author. ![]() It arrived in bookstores in March 1998, followed shortly by its film adaptation, which was released in April 1999 to critical acclaim. In 1997 he published The Wishbones, his first novel, which Perrotta has said is basically 'about my high school years.' The unpublished manuscript of Election was optioned as a screenplay in 1996 by director Alexander Payne, which then led to interest in publishing it as a book. One was Election, the story of an intense high-school election inspired by the three-candidate 1992 United States presidential race, and another was Lucky Winners, which remains unpublished as of 2007 and which Perrotta described in 2004 as 'a pretty good novel about a family that falls apart after winning the lottery.' In 1994, Perrotta published his first book, a collection of short stories titled Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies which The Washington Post called 'more powerful than any other coming-of-age novel.' The same year, Perrotta left Yale and began teaching expository writing at Harvard University. ![]() While teaching Creative Writing at Yale, Perrotta completed three novels that he had trouble getting published. ![]()
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