Joanne Greenberg

Novelist, Author

1932 –

71

Who is Joanne Greenberg?

Joanne Greenberg is an American author best known for the bestselling novel, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden written under the pen name of Hannah Green. It 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. She is a professor of creative writing at the Colorado School of Mines.

Prof. Greenberg appears in the 2004 Daniel Mackler documentary Take These Broken Wings, which is about recovering from schizophrenia without the use of psychiatric medication.

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Born
Sep 24, 1932
Brooklyn
Also known as
  • Hannah Green
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • American University
  • University of London
  • University of Colorado Boulder
Lived in
  • Brooklyn

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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