Joanne Greenberg is an internationally renowned, award-winning author of sixteen novels and four collections of short stories. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she graduated from American University, where she majored in anthropology and English, and also studied at the University of London and the University of Colorado. Her second novel, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, published in 1964, has sold millions of copies and was adapted into a 1977 movie and a 2004 play of the same name, and her fourth novel, In This Sign (also available from Penguin Classics), published in 1970, was made into an Emmy Award–winning Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie in 1985 titled Love Is Never Silent. Greenberg lives near Lookout Mountain, Colorado, where she writes daily, tutors Latin and Hebrew, is active in the Beth Evergreen congregation, has been an adjunct professor of cultural anthropology and fiction writing at the Colorado School of Mines, and has volunteered as an EMT. Her website is [...].

Esmé Weijun Wang (foreword) is the New York Times bestselling author of the essay collection The Collected Schizophrenias and the novel The Border of Paradise. She received the Whiting Award in 2018 and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists of 2017. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and lives in San Francisco.

A MODERN CLASSIC in the tradition of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted, Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind, Janet Frame's An Angel at My Table, and Tove Ditlevsen's recently celebrated Copenhagen Trilogy.

MULTIMILLION-COPY BESTSELLER

INCREASING POPULARITY OF BOOKS ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESS: Recent successes include Matt Haig's Reasons to Stay Alive, John Green's Turtles All the Way Down, Robert Kolker's Hidden Valley Road, Andrew Solomon's The Noonday Demon, Susannah Cahalan's Brain on Fire, and Esmé Weijun Wang's The Collected Schizophrenias.

AN EXCITING REDISCOVERY for a generation that's much more open about mental illness.

NEW FOREWORD BY ESMÉ WEIJUN WANG, the New York Times bestselling author of The Collected Schizophrenias, whose new novel will be published by Riverhead a month after I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.

NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR, relating the powerful story of how it was only when she stopped hiding her mental illness that she met her husband.

LIVING AUTHOR: A rare promotional opportunity for a Penguin Classic!

YA CROSSOVER: The main character is 16 years old, and the novel has long been taught in high schools (as well as in colleges and universities).

EXCLUSIVE TO PENGUIN CLASSICS: By the time we publish, the Holt edition will have been out of print for two years.

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD-NOMINATED 1974 MOVIE of the same name that marked the film debut of Mel Gibson.

TIMED FOR MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH

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