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  <name><![CDATA[Thomas C. Foster]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Thomas C. Foster is Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Flint, where he teaches classes in contemporary fiction, drama, and poetry as well as creative writing and composition. Foster has been teaching literature and writing since 1975, the last twenty-one years at the University of Michigan-Flint. He lives in East Lansing, Michigan.

In addition to &lt;i&gt;How to Read Novels Like a Professor&lt;/i&gt; (Summer 2008) and &lt;i&gt;How to Read Literature Like a Professor&lt;/i&gt; (2003), both from HarperCollins, Foster is the author of &lt;i&gt;Form and Society in Modern Literature&lt;/i&gt; (Northern Illinois University Press, 1988), &lt;i&gt;Seamus Heaney&lt;/i&gt; (Twayne, 1989), and &lt;i&gt;Understanding John Fowles&lt;/i&gt;(University of South Carolina Press, 1994). His novel &lt;i&gt;The Professor's Daughter&lt;/i&gt;, is in progress.

Foster studied English at Dartmouth College and then Michigan State University, moving forward from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the twentieth in the process. His academic writing has concentrated on twentieth-century British, American, and Irish figures and movements—James Joyce, William Faulkner, Seamus Heaney, John Fowles, Derek Mahon, Eavan Boland, modernism and postmodernism. But he reads and teaches lots of other writers and periods: Shakespeare, Sophocles, Homer, Dickens, Hardy, Poe, Ibsen, Twain.

Author photograph courtesy of HarperCollins.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>        
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Seamus Heaney]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Form and Society in Modern Literature]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Understanding John Fowles]]></title>
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