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In 1957, shortly after the death of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, who helped found the Academy, and who was one of its trustees, the Gralnick Foundation generously offered to provide an honorarium to be used in honor and in the memory of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann. The Academy had, however, the entire responsibility for determining the conditions of the award. Because of Dr. Fromm-Reichmann's own interests and contributions, the Academy has given this award to persons who have made significant contributions to the knowledge of the etiology, nature, or therapy of schizophrenia. Hannah Green's contribution amply fulfills these conditions.
Miss Green is the first woman to receive this award. Except for one award shared with a non-M.D. research worker, she is the first non-physician to receive the award. The others have been research workers or therapists, or both. Although the work for which she receives this award is not research in the usual medical sense of the term, those of you who have read her novel know how much searching must have gone into I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.
As the Award Committee said in its report, in which The Academy's Council concurs: "The large number of persons who have read, and been personally moved by this book, would by itself, constitute reason for this choice. There seemed to be other compelling reasons why Hannah Green would be a good candidate. The book has made an enormous impact upon large sections of the general population and has exerted particularly strong appeal to medical students and residents. At the University of Pennsylvania I would estimate