Novelist Thomas Kaplan-Maxfield (www.tkaplanmaxfield.com) is an English professor at Boston College, where for over twenty years he has taught writing as well as literature courses in Love and Gothic Fiction, among others. In 2011 he published the reverse detective novel Hide & Seek and in 2005 published Memoirs of a Shape-Shifter, both to wide acclaim; they are available through Amazon in both print and ebook versions. The late modernist novelist Lawrence Durrell referred to his friend's Kaplan-Maxfield's work as "direct messages from the script." Kaplan-Maxfield is also a green residential builder in Greater Boston.