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Joanne Greenberg

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January 01, 1932 in Brooklyn, New York, The United States

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http://mountaintopauthor.com/

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Joanne Greenberg, also known as Hannah Green, is a writer whose style lends itself to the mature reader yet simultaneously presents themes suitable for all ages. Greenberg addresses the persistent doubts that plague all of us by relating stories of others in need. Though the scenarios in which her characters find themselves may be unfamiliar to the average reader, the emotions they feel while enmeshed in the plotlines are universal in appeal and scope. Her works include magazine publications, short stories, novels, and a movie adaptation of her book, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.

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Average rating: 3.75 · 8,212 ratings · 390 reviews · 23 distinct works

	I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg, Hannah Green 3.74 avg rating — 7,953 ratings — published 1964 — 40 editions	My rating:
	In This Sign: The Highly Acclaimed Novel of a Family Whose Love and Courage Enable Them to Survive in the Silent World of the Deaf 3.89 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1970 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Of Such Small Differences 3.93 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Where the Road Goes 3.06 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	My rating:
	No Reck'ning Made 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The King's Persons 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1985	My rating:
	The Monday Voices 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2	My rating:
	Age of Consent 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1987	My rating:
	High Crimes and Misdemeanors 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Founder's Praise 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1976 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.”
― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

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“There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.”
― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

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“The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself".”
― Joanne Greenberg

tags: depression , mental-illness

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