Crace, John. (February 21, 2009) A life in writing: Tom Perrotta. ციტატა: „He was born in 1961 in Garwood, where he spent his entire childhood. His father was an Italian postal worker, his mother an Albanian-Italian - "that made her a second-class Italian" - secretary.“ ციტირების თარიღი: September 29, 2013.
McClurg, Jocelyn (September 4, 2013). „Cool fall author: Tom Perrotta“. USA Today. ციტირების თარიღი: September 29, 2013. ციტატა: „Perrotta, 52, who lives in the Boston suburb of Belmont, Mass.“
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Fiamma, Florinda. (March 1, 2012) Tom Perrotta At the end of real life in the new novel of a cult author. დაარქივებულია ორიგინალიდან — მარტი 4, 2016. ციტატა: „My paternal grandparents were Italian immigrants from a village near Avellino. I grew up hearing them and my dad talk Italian. My mother’s relatives were Albanians, but they, too, lived in Italy before emigrating to the States.“ ციტირების თარიღი: September 29, 2013.
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Fiamma, Florinda. (March 1, 2012) Tom Perrotta At the end of real life in the new novel of a cult author. დაარქივებულია ორიგინალიდან — მარტი 4, 2016. ციტატა: „My paternal grandparents were Italian immigrants from a village near Avellino. I grew up hearing them and my dad talk Italian. My mother’s relatives were Albanians, but they, too, lived in Italy before emigrating to the States.“ ციტირების თარიღი: September 29, 2013.
