25th ANNIVERSARY of PINK PAGES

The Hoffman Breast Center at Mount Auburn Hospital invites you to the 25th Anniversary of Pink Pages!

June 9, 2025

VIP Reception (Sponsorship or VIP Ticket purchases only) 5:00 p.m.

General Admission 5:45 p.m.

The American Repertory Theater

Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA

Join Alice Hoffman for an evening featuring personal stories and readings from beloved authors: Ann Leary, J. Courtney Sullivan, Beth Teitell, Ilyon Woo, Lee Woodruff and Laura Zigman. Emmy award-winning arts and entertainment critic Joyce Kulhawik will serve as the evening's emcee and all proceeds will benefit the Hoffman Breast Center.

For questions, please contact Olivia Washesky at 617-499-5099 | mahphilanthropy@bilh.org

Business Casual Attire

To purchase the authors' books, please visit the Harvard Book Store.

More information about the evening's 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 Oprah's Book Club selection), and the Practical Magic series, including Practical Magic, Magic Lessons, The Rules of Magic (a selection of Reese's 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, NPR, Real Simple and the New York Times. The Good House was adapted as a motion picture starring Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline in 2022, and her new essay collection, I've Tried Being Nice will soon be out in paperback. Ann and her husband Denis Leary live in New York.

J. Courtney Sullivan is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels. Commencement, Maine, The Engagements, Saints for All Occasions, and Friends and Strangers. Her latest book, The Cliffs, was a 2024 Reese's Book Club pick. Courtney's work has been translated into seventeen languages. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, New York, Real Simple, and O: The Oprah Magazine, among many other publications. In 2017, she wrote the forewords to new editions of two of her favorite classic novels-Anne of Green Gables and Little Women. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and two children.

Beth Teitell is a veteran Boston Globe reporter. Her beat is "human behavior," and she is known for writing with a sense of humor, and for exploring the emotional angles of things that wouldn't seem to have an emotional angle (e.g., missing walls in "open concept" homes; the anger from Dunkin regulars when the company changed its rewards program; and how the men's quarter zip sweater is a way for rich guys to look approachable and approachable guys to look rich). Before joining the Globe she was a columnist and a reporter at 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, and for years she delivered humorous commentaries on public radio's popular "Marketplace" program. She lives in Brookline.

Ilyon Woo is the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of MASTER SLAVE HUSBAND WIFE: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom-an instant New York Times best-seller, one of the New York Times "Ten Best Books of the Year," a People Magazine "Top 10 Book of the Year," and a finalist for a Kirkus Prize, also named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, Boston, Chicago Public Library, and Oprah Daily. Ilyon is previously the author of THE GREAT DIVORCE: A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, and she has received support for her research from the Whiting Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She holds a BA in the Humanities from Yale College and a PhD in English from Columbia University.

As co-author of the best-selling In an Instant, Lee Woodruff garnered critical acclaim for the compelling and humorous chronicle of her family's journey to recovery following her husband Bob's roadside bomb injury in Iraq. Appearing together on national media since the February 2007 publication of their book, the couple founded the Bob Woodruff Foundation to assist wounded service members and their families. To date, they have raised more than $95 million to help veterans successfully reintegrate into their communities and receive care.

Woodruff has been a contributing reporter for "CBS This Morning" and "Good Morning America." Her best-selling book Perfectly Imperfect - A Life in Progress, was followed by her first novel, Those We Love Most.
A freelance writer and print journalist, Woodruff currently runs a media/speaker training business.

Laura Zigman's the author of six novels, including Small World (a New York Times Group Text pick and Editor's Choice), Separation Anxiety (which was optioned by Julianne Nicholson and the production company Wiip ("Mare of Easttown") 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 ghostwritten/collaborated on several works of non-fiction, including Eddie Izzard's New York Times bestseller, Believe Me, and has been a contributor to the New York Times and other publications. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Emcee

Joyce Kulhawik, best known as the Emmy Award-winning arts and entertainment anchor for CBS-Boston (WBZ-TV 1981-2008), is an arts critic/advocate and cancer crusader as a 3X survivor. The first arts reporter/critic in the U.S. to appear every weeknight as part of a local TV news team, she gave journalistic stature to arts reporting, covering local and national events including the Oscars, Emmys, and Grammys live from the red carpet, from Boston and Broadway to Hollywood and beyond. 
  
Joyce is currently President of the Boston Theater Critics Association, a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics, Boston Online Film Critics Association, and appears on Boston's local NPR station's The Culture Show (GBH radio 89.7) weekdays at 2PM.  Among countless awards, Kulhawik was inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame, received the N.E. Emmys Governor's Award for her distinguished career, and an Honorary Doctorate in Communications from Simmons University. Find her reviews at JoycesChoices.com. 

Thank you to our 2025 sponsors!

Pulitzer Sponsors

The 72 Fund

 Ross Hoffman and Dorothy Crawford

Alice Hoffman

Karp Family Foundation

Leslie Wolfe

Nobel Sponsors

Epic

Lovestruck Books

Kristin and John Macomber

Newbery Sponsors 

Nancy R. Kolligian

Judy Laverty and Kelly Higgins

Eileen McDonagh and Robert Davoli

Cathy and Jim Rafferty

Gail Roberts

Claudia Scott

Jacqueline Spencer, MD and Thomas Mattox

Tee Taggart and Jack Turner

Caldecott Sponsors

Robert Eagan

Betsy and Steve Filton

Ruth Erickson and Paul Goularte

Marion P. Hogan, MD

Hologic, Inc.

Carolyn Lamb, MD

Sophia Lee and Robert Borgen

Neuberger Berman Group LLC

Lisa Weissmann, MD and Debra Shapiro, MD