Results for 'joanne greenberg'

1. Joanne Greenberg

In This Sign

Joanne Greenberg is the author of nineteen books, including I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. She received the Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial Fiction Award as well as the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction in 1963 for her novel The King's Persons. Her novel In This Sign was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie called Love Is Never Silent. Greenberg was a volunteer firefighter and paramedic for thirteen years.

1. Leonora Carrington

White Rabbits/Down Below

Carrington's stories are optimistic and nihilistic, beautiful and grotesque, tender and cruel... Her stories make brambles out of my brain

1. Joanne Greenberg

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

1. Elaine Kraf

The Princess of 72nd Street

Bold, challenging, beautiful and charming... Kraf balances Ellen’s account beautifully, keeping us simultaneously intimate and detached from her as Ellen’s crowded surroundings make her seem all the lonelier, and her antic enthusiasm shields a sadness... Insofar as comparison is possible with such an idiosyncratic book, Princess recalls two other New York novels of the 1970s – Elizabeth Hardwick’s Sleepless Nights and Renata Adler’s Speedboat

1. Joanne Greenberg

In This Sign

1. Joanne Greenberg

On the Run