Joanne Greenberg just celebrated her 92nd birthday on Sept. 24th. She said it was one of the best birthdays she’s ever had. One of her acts of celebration was going for a motorcycle ride with her Rabbi. Imagine cruising down one of those twelve-percent-grade Colorado switchbacks on a motorcycle at 92 years old. Another celebration
When Albert Greenberg started out as Colorado’s first rehabilitation counselor for the Deaf, he had as two of his early clients, Johnnie Calderone and Saundra Scott. They forged a relationship beyond the department, and Johnnie worked with Albert as he struggled to learn American Sign Language. Albert, in turn, brought what he was learning home
If every story feels like a lie, you have a great book. I love all of Joanne Greenberg’s fiction, but I wasn’t sure how she’d do with a memoir. I thought On the Run would be one of those boring memoirs about a woman trying to work in a “man’s world.” It turned out to
I compare I Never Promised You a Rose Garden to Ken Keysey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. I first read them both as a troubled teen in juvenile hall back in the early ’70s. In both books, I saw myself, and both helped me realize that I was on the wrong path. So, I
Joanne Greenberg is most well-known for her book “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden,” but she has written many more books, though not as well known, are excellent reads! When I read, I like to feel for the characters, get inside their heads; be eager to know what they will do/think next. Joanne’s characters
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. Since then, she has produced a lifetime of writing. Most known for the psychological novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, She went on to finish fifteen novels, four short story
Perhaps you’ve just discovered one of Joanne Greenberg’s many novels, short stories, or memoirs in her lifetime of writing. Maybe you’ve been a lifelong fan. You may have even been a troubled teen in the mid-1960s who was rescued by I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. Joanne Greenberg may have made you aware of
When I started at Lookout Mountain Fire Department and later Idledale Rescue, almost all the services that did that work were volunteer. Like many volunteers, I fell backward into the job. The work is smelly, dirty, sometimes dangerous, and full of sudden calls, which wipe out planning the rest of one’s life. I loved it.
Joanne Greenberg is an American author born September 24, 1932, in Brooklyn, New York. She was an adjunct instructor of anthropology at the Colorado School of Mines, an elementary school teacher, and a volunteer with the Lookout Mountain Fire Department and the Highland Rescue Team. Ms. Greenberg is best known for the classic novel I