Suzanne Herzberg

The Firm, by John Grisham, falls into the category of a legal thriller. Wayne Tarrance is the FBI agent assigned to work with the main character, Mitch McDeere, a Harvard law school graduate and a...

Michelangelo, whose full name was Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, was born in 1475 and died in 1564. He was an Italian artist who is perhaps best known for his sculpture of David and...

No More Dead Dogs, by Gordon Korman, tells the story of Wallace Wallace, the boy who never lies. Wallace has refused to write a positive review of a book that he hates and is sentenced to detention...

The narrator in "The Leap," by Louise Erdrich, is the daughter of a former circus acrobat named Anna. The title of this story refers to both Anna’s physical leaps and her figurative leaps. As an...

One of the main themes in Barbara Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees is freedom. Kingsolver tells the story of Taylor Greer, born Marietta Greer, who has left her hometown in search of freedom from the...

"The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" tells the story of a larger-than-life corpse that washes up on the shore of a small village. The man is huge, so long that he cannot be placed on a bed and...

O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather, presents two powerful themes: the strength and everlasting nature of the land and the ugly, destructive nature of jealousy. As immigrant Swedish farmers in Nebraska,...