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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 How to Read Novels Like a Professor and How to Read Literature Like a Professor , both from HarperCollins, Foster is the author of Form and Society in Modern Literature , Seamus Heaney , and Understanding John Fowles. His novel The Professor's Daughter, 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.

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Thomas C. Foster

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Books from Thomas C. Foster

How to Read Literature Like a Professor

How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form

How to Read Literature Like a Professor: For Kids

Twenty-five Books That Shaped America: How White Whales, Green Lights, and Restless Spirits Forged Our National Identity

How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse

How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: Critical Thinking in the Age of Bias, Contested Truth, and Disinformation

Reading the Silver Screen: A Film Lover's Guide to Decoding the Art Form That Moves

Understanding Novels