<p>I just started taking a creative writing course this semester. My professor, also happens to be a highly respected writer and has won numerous awards. I was thinking about asking this person to sign a book I own of theirs. Has anyone else ever done this?</p>
<p>Do it at the end of the semester. On the last day of class.</p>
<p>^I agree, this is what I was going to say. I think it’s okay to ask but better to wait until the last day.</p>
<p>Yup wait until the last day, otherwise it might be interpreted as brown nosing.</p>
<p>Well, quite frankly, I don’t really think it’s a big deal. It’s hard for me to imagine realistic negative associations he might have with that (annoyance, because everyone asks him? wariness, because he thinks you’re ‘sucking up’? disgust, because he thinks you’re desperate? Who the heck knows?)</p>
<p>But, despite the fact that I think a normal person wouldn’t have a problem with it, it’s always safer to wait until the end of the class - at that point, you’ve already established yourself as a person and a student in his mind, and a little thing like asking him to autograph a book isn’t going to make him think differently of you.</p>