Authors

Joanne Greenberg is an American author best known for the bestselling novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, first published under the pen-name Hannah Green. It was adapted into a 1977 film and a 2004 play. She is also the author of nineteen other books. She received the Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial Fiction Award as well as the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction in 1963 for her novel The King’s Persons, which was about the massacre of the Jewish population of York at York Castle in 1190. She was a professor of anthropology at the Colorado School of Mines. Greenberg appears in the 2004 Daniel Mackler documentary Take These Broken Wings, which is about recovering from schizophrenia without the use of psychiatric medication. Her book, In This Sign, was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie called Love Is Never Silent.

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden will be reissued in 2022, with a new afterword by the author.