Cambridge, Massachusetts May 7, 2025 (Issuewire.com) - Mount Auburn Hospital presents the 25th Anniversary of Pink Pages, an event hosted by award-winning author and breast cancer survivor Alice Hoffman to benefit the Hoffman Breast Center at Mount Auburn Hospital on Monday, June 9, 2025. The live event will begin at 5:45 p.m. at The American Repertory Theater in Harvard Square, Cambridge, and will also be available virtually. The evening will feature Alice Hoffman as well as popular best-selling authors Ann Leary, J. Courtney Sullivan, Beth Teitell, IIyon Woo, Lee Woodruff and Laura Zigman. Emmy award-winning arts journalist Joyce Kulhawik will serve as the evenings emcee. Each participant will share stories and anecdotes about their lives, careers and of course, their books.
Over the past 25 years, Pink Pages has raised more than $5 million for the Hoffman Breast Center. As important as it has been for the Center, it has also had a great impact on the author community. Ann Leary, who will be presenting at the event this year, puts it best when she says,
Ive attended many Pink Pages, either as an author or supporter, and its always my favorite event of the year. Only Alice could wrangle the wonderfully diverse and talented array of authors that have delighted audiences and helped raise so much money. We all love doing it because its a great cause -- and because we love Alice!"
Event tickets are $300 per person or $650 per person for VIP tickets; VIP ticket holders will receive six books--with a signed bookplate in eachfrom the featured authors. All proceeds from Pink Pages will benefit the Hoffman Breast Center at Mount Auburn Hospital. (Virtual tickets are $150 and each ticketholder will receive a recording of the program after the event). For more information and to purchase tickets please visit: pinkpages2025.givesmart.com.
A bit about the evenings participants:
Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary, The World That We Knew, The Marriage of Opposites, The Red Garden, The Museum of Extraordinary Things, The Dovekeepers, Here on Earth (an Oprahs Book Club selection), and the Practical Magic series, including Practical Magic, Magic Lessons, The Rules of Magic (a selection of Reeses Book Club), and The Book of Magic. She lives near Boston.
Ann Leary is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels The Foundling, The Children, The Good House, Outtakes From a Marriage, and the memoir An Innocent, A Broad. She has written for numerous publications including Ploughshares, NP, Real Simple and the New York Times. The Good House was adapted as a motion picture starring Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Klie and her new essay collection Ive Tried Being Nice will soon be out in paperback. Ann and her husband Denis Leary are enjoying their empty nest in New York.
Courtney Sullivan is the bestselling author of the novels Commencement, Maine, The Engagements, Saints for All Occasions and Friends and Strangers. Her most recent novel The Cliffs was a 2024 Reese's Book Club pick. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, New York Magazine, Real Simple and O: The Oprah Magazine, among others. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and two children.
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Beth Teitell is a veteran Boston Globe reporter known for her sense of humor and for exploring the emotional angles of things that wouldnt seem to have an emotional angle! Case in point -- her story about the anger from Dunkin regulars when the company changed its rewards program. Before joining the Globe she was a columnist and reporter for The Boston Herald and a writer at Boston Magazine. She is the author of two books From Here to Maternity: The Education of a Rookie Mom and Drinking Problems at the Fountain of Youth. For years she has lent her unique brand of humor to public radios poplar Marketplace program. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Ilyon Woo is the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of MASTER SLAVE HUSBAND WIFE: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom named one of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year, a People Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year, a finalist for a Kirkus Prize and Best Book of the Year mentions from The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Boston Magazine and Oprah Daily. She is the author of GREAT DIVORCE: A Nineteenth-Century Mothers Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers and Her Times. Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe and The New York Times.
Lee Woodruff is the co-author of the best-seller In An Instant, a compelling and humorous chronicle of her familys journey to recovery following her husband/journalist Bob Woodruffs injury in Iraq. The couple founded the Bob Woodruff Foundation to assist wounded service members and their families. To date, they have raised $95-million dollars to help veterans receive care and reintegrate into their communities. Her bestselling book Perfectly Imperfect A Life in Progress was followed by her first novel, Those We Love Most.
Laura Zigman is the author of six novels including Small World (A New York Times Editors Pick), Separation Anxiety (which was optioned by Julianne Nicholson for a limited television series) and Animal Husbandry, which was made into the movie Someone Like You starring Hugh Jackman and Ashley Judd. She has been a contributor to The New York Times and works closely with Alice Hoffman on Adelphi Universitys Alice Hoffman Young Writers Retreat. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Joyce Kulhawik is best known as the Emmy Award-winning Arts and Entertainment Anchor for CBS-Boston (WBZ-TV) for close to thirty years. She lends her expertise as a critic, arts advocate, motivational speaker, and 3X cancer survivor all over New England. Joyce is currently President of the Boston Theater Critics Association, a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics and appears on Bostons local NPR stations The Culture Show. She was inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame and her cultural reviews can be found at Joyceschoices.com.
About the Hoffman Breast Center
The Hoffman Breast Center at Mount Auburn Hospital is named in honor of the Hoffman Family and novelist Alice Hoffman, whose vision, enthusiasm and generosity made it reality. The center is designed to provide educational resources and referrals for breast cancer patients. In this nurturing setting, patients and their families receive direction to appropriate resources, instruction in breast self-exam, guidance to the most effective courses of treatment and support at each step along the recovery and a healthy lifestyle. The Hoffman Breast Center continues to offer patients the latest resources and the most advanced technologies. It provides the full range of services including mammography imaging, breast ultrasound, ultrasound breast biopsies, stereotactic biopsies and breast MRIs.
About Mount Auburn Hospital
Mount Auburn Hospital was founded in 1886. A teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, its mission is to provide clinically excellent care with compassion and to teach students of medicine and thehealth professions.
Mount Auburn Hospital is a part of Beth Israel Lahey Health, a healthcare system that brings together academic medical centers and teaching hospitals, community and specialty hospitals, more than 4,700 physicians and 39,000 employees in a shared mission to expand access to great care and advance the science and practice of medicine through groundbreaking research and education.
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