Idaho Springs Literary Festival

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

My Quiet Fight For Home Book Released.

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

Rose Garden in Master’s Thesis in Turkey

Gülfem Aşlakcı is currently working on her master’s thesis in the field of Comparative Literature. The topic of her thesis is as follows: This study compares the influences of characters in Peyami Safa’s novel “Dokuzuncu Hariciye Koğuşu” and Joanne Greenberg’s “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden” through a psychoanalytic lens, grounded in the authors’

On Writing

Writing tends to be an early vocation. It’s so early even the writer may not know it can last a lifetime, providing interest and excitement. The idea that it is isolating only means that it can also call to people who were introverts before they set down the first word. Erasmus wrote, so did Boccaccio,

Gallery

Welcome to our Gallery page. Many of the pictures on this page were taken from newspaper articles. Others were taken by Albert Greenberg, and some were taken by BitcoDavid, our site’s designer and admin. In addition to a lifetime of writing, Joanne Greenberg has contributed to her community of Lookout Mountain, Colorado, by teaching elementary

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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

Thirteen Years with Fire-Rescue

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.

About Me

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