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A Conversation with Joanne Greenberg

Joanne Greenberg (1932-) is best known for writing / Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1964), a groundbreaking, fictional representation of a teenage girl's recovery from schizophrenia, based on the therapeutic relationship between Greenberg and Frieda Fromm-Reichmann; the novel was recently re-issued with a new afterword. Greenberg has published seventeen works of fiction; a new novel, Miri Who Charms, is scheduled for publication in May 2009. Greenberg's work praised by writers as varied as Sanford Pinsker, Ruth Wisse, Joyce Carol Oates, and Christopher Lehmann-Haupt still awaits the acclaim and critical attention it deserves. Formally inventive and deeply moral, politically aware but skeptical of political agendas, Greenberg's work explores Jewish themes and characters. Greenberg's first publication was a historical novel, The King's Persons, about the twelfthcentury York massacre of Jews (1963); like that novel, this conversation reveals Greenberg's ongoing concern with Jewish history and texts. Greenberg lives with her husband, Albert, near Golden, Colorado, in the home they built over fifty years ago. In addition to writing daily, Greenberg teaches writing, ethics, and anthropology at the Colorado School of Mines.