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. 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

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

A Pioneer in the Deaf Community

My husband, Albert, had worked at the Colorado Department of Rehabilitation for over a year when his department head called him in. “You haven’t had an in-service since you started. The law says you have to have one. You’re overdue. It’s at the University of Colorado and it’s called The Deaf Client.” “I have a

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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.

My Books

Welcome to the My Books page. My newest, On the Run, is a memoir of the thirteen years I spent as a volunteer firefighter and EMT, serving on Colorado’s most dangerous mountain roads and Interstate highways. I was one of the first women in America to join a firefighting team. It was published by McMania

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