Joanne Greenberg published her first book, The King’s Persons, in 1963. It won the Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial Fiction Award and the Jewish Book Council of America award. Most known for the psychological novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, She went on to finish fifteen novels, four short story collections, and most recently, a memoir of her time serving on a mountain fire and rescue team–On the Run. Among the Deaf community in America, Ms. Greenberg is known for the groundbreaking In This Sign, which is being reprinted soon in a special commemorative version by Penguin Books.
