Title: How to Read Novels Like a Professor Author: Thomas C. Foster Published: New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2008 About the Author[1] Thomas C. Foster grew up in rural Ohio.  His early inspirations to literary works came from Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain.  He taught literature from 1975 until his retirement in 2014 with his last 27 years at the University of Michigan-Flint.  He has written the following books published under HarperCollins: How to Read Literature Like a Professor (2003, revised 2014), How to Read Novels Like a Professor (2008), Twenty-five Books that Shaped America (2011), How to Read Literature Like a Professor—for Kids (2012), Reading the Silver Screen (2016), and How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse (2018).  Less well-known works include Form and Society in Modern Literature (Northern Illinois University Press, 1988), Seamus Heaney (Twayne, 1989), and Understanding John Fowles (University of South Carolina Press, 1994).  He is still active writing books and you can find his blog site at thomascfoster.com. My Perspective This book was an accidental find.  Meaning I was not looking for it and it was not recommended by anybody I knew.  As far as I was concerned…