Martin Asiner has been teaching English and American literature and journalism for more than twenty five years both on the high school level and the college and university level. Mr. Asiner is the author of several books on literature appreciation: The Smart Students Guide to Modern Literary Theory, The Smart Students Guide to Really Hard Classic Essays, and the Smart Students Guide to the GRE Literature in English Test. He is currently writing a science fiction trilogy about the earth leaving its orbit around the sun and heading out to the vastness of space. Mr. Asiner lives in Jersey City with his wife Shirley and daughter Bonnie.