A Lifetime of Writing

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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.

AUG 8 1977; Writers Discuss Their Metro State College Gathering; From left are Allen Ginsberg, Joanne Greenberg and John Williams.; (Photo By Ernie Leyba/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

The King’s Persons

What caused the massacre of the Jews in York in 1190? King Richard was away at the Crusades. Who was left in charge?

1963

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

A semi-autobiographical novel of my three-year hospitalization for schizophrenia, beginning my recovery, with good people and a fine therapist.

1964

The Monday Voices

This follows a skilled vocational rehabilitation counselor through several of his cases. I don’t think anyone has ever written a novel on this subject.

1965

Summering

A Collection of Short Stories

1966

Joanne and Albert celebrate their wedding. 1955 (Photo Unknown)

In This Sign

Deaf couple, Janice and Abel, and their hearing daughter, Margret, live many experiences. Hallmark used it for Love is Never Silent

1970

Rites of Passage

A collection of short stories

1972

Founder’s Praise

My salute to the communes of the 1960s and ’70s with their premises of all love and no law. I invent a new religion and see where it goes.

1976

High Crimes & Misdemeanors

A collection of short stories

1979

A Season of Delight

A woman firefighter wonders what to do with the love left over, after her kids are grown. She contemplates a romance.

1981

The Far Side of Victory

What happens to someone who gets off scot-free? Is there punishment besides the law?

1983

What I see when I look out my window. (Photo BitcoDavid)

Simple Gifts

My comic novel about a government plan to re-imagine ranch life in the Colorado 1800s.

1986

Age of Consent

Was he a hero? He was unable to love, but he was a good man. Can that be?

1987

Of Such Small Differences

Romance between a Deaf/Blind man who writes for Handi-cards and a hearing woman.

1988

With the Snow Queen

A collection of short stories

1991

No Reck’ning Made

The life of a teacher in a mountain town. Is she out of her depth or confronted by modern fads?

1993

Where the Road Goes

An epistolary novel about a walk across the U.S. and of one family, left behind.

1998

A founding member of Congregation Beth Evergreen, Joanne brings home the Torah

Appearances

If his father is dead, why is there no record, no memories except him riding that motorcycle?

2006

Miri, who Charms

What are the limits of charm? One woman has it, one doesn’t. A friendship is tested.

2009

All I’ve Done for You

Why is the main character a suicide? There was money involved. Where did it go?

2017

Jubilee Year

A town cut off without any modern conveniences. Does it improve their lives?

2019

On the Run

A memoir of 13 years as a woman in fire/Rescue, in a mountain community.

2023

A fire near a strip mall in Golden, Colorado circa 1982
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