Joanne Greenberg

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Joanne Greenberg (b,. Brooklyn 1932 ) is an American author most well known for the bestselling novel, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden written under the pen name of Hannah Green, which was adapted into a 1977 movie and a 2004 play of the same name. She received the Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial Fiction Award as well as the Jewish Book Council of America award in 1963 for her novel The King's Persons, which was about the massacre of the Jewish population of York at York Castle in 1190.

Her books include:

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, (Published under the pseudonym Hannah Green) which is a fictionalized treatment of her own hospitalization and treatment for schizophrenia.

In This Sign, the story of a young couple growing up in an old fashioned school for the deaf where the are not taught ASL. Running away, marrying and bearing two hearing children add context to this powerful novel.

Of Such Minor Differences, the story of a love affair between a man who is deafblind and a woman who is neither.

Age of Consent, the story of a man, adopted from an Israeli slum as a young child, grows up without ever consenting to that life changing event.

The Far Side of Victory, killing a family while driving drunk, the main character here grows beyond that adolescent stage into strong adulthood.

No Reck'Ning Made, the story of a woman who grows up very poor, returns home from college as a teacher and soon finds her home area growing beyond her.

Where the Road Goes, told in the form of letters recounts the adventures of a sixty something woman whose last fling is a walk from California to Wood's Hole, Massachusetts as an environmental statement.