Rose Garden Writer

The New Home of Joanne Greenberg, author of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.

About Me

About Me

Joanne Greenberg is an American author born September 24, 1932, in Brooklyn, New York. She was a professor of anthropology at the Colorado School of Mines, an elementary school teacher, and a volunteer with the Lookout Mountain Fire Rescue.

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My Books

My Books

Click here for links to buy my books. Most are readily available through your choice of book sellers. Some however are out of print and our dedicated Web team has scoured the Internet to find everything available.

A Lifetime of Writing

Thirteen Years With Fire-Rescue

Thirteen Years With Fire-Rescue

"Women on the fire department?" The year was 1972, and no female was even close to that bastion of rural male life. On the Run begins with that story and the result of my thirteen-year service.

Thirteen Years with Fire-Rescue

A Lifetime of Writing

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

Rose Garden Writer

A Lifetime of Writing