Famous I Didn T Promise You A Rose Garden Book References. I never promised you a rose garden. Web her 1964 fictionalized autobiography about schizophrenia became a national bestseller, a book entitled i never promised you a rose garden, which she published under the pseudonym hannah green.

Either it was their favorite book and vitally important to them, or they had never heard of it. Web a historical view of schizophrenia. First published in 1964, this striking account of greenberg’s years in a psychiatric hospital.