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